- Location(s): England, Europe
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Early 20th Century / WW1
In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation, Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th century
TRANSLATED BY SASHA DUGDALE With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life...
In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story
- Location(s): Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl’s...
In One Brief Moment All Eternity
- Location(s): Cairo, Istanbul (Constantinople), Middle East, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th/19th Centuries
During a time of great turmoil, Gustave Flaubert created literature’s most scandalous heroine: Madame Bovary. He then poisoned her with arsenic. But what if, 175 years later, Emma – and the women history overlooked – could seize the quill...
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2007 onwards
Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be “completely free,” she...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
“In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of...










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