- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): WW2 and Modern
Two craftily interwoven stories, separated by 50 years in time, make upthis emotionally and intellectually challenging novel. Set in Holland, one story tells of the passionate love between a young Dutch woman and Jacob Todd, a wounded English soldier:...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
These six stories are all inspired by Tokyo, a magical place that writer Wendy Nelson Tokunaga has observed both first-hand and from afar. A Tokyo teenager obsessed with becoming an idol singer despite her mother’s trepidations. An American bar...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
The headmistress of High Fell Hall, an expensive boarding school for girls near Richmond, asks Dr Mills Sanderson to help two pupils with their studies over the summer. Her duties have hardly begun when one of the girls, Cecile...
- Location(s): Arizona
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War I
Tragedy and triumph unfurl when a devout Mormon family hires a head-strong young widow during trying economic times. Two families — one Texan, one Mormon — develop an embattled but gripping relationship in the Arizona desert, while WWI rages...
- Location(s): Berlin, Prague
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
Part of the epic series featuring Bernie Gunther. Summer of 194a in Berlin, Gunther is in persuit of killer. He meets a girl, who needs rescuing from a seeming rape-attack and they subsequently begin a relationship. He is relocated...