- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Mid-19th century
In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified...
Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
- Location(s): Shanghai, Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): late 1800s-present
A high position bestowed by China’s empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while her scholar father and...
- Location(s): Buchenwald
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
“A powerful and disturbing study in terrible lies and the human need to believe them. Few readers will close this book unshaken.” ANNIE PROULX Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
From Cornwall to Russia. Laura, her faithful husky Skye and Tariq are whirled into a breathtaking mystery adventure when they join the film crew on the set of THE ARISTOCRATIC THIEF about an art heist that could never be...
Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
- Location(s): Paris, France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1880s
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for – and having...
- Location(s): Stamford Hill, Budapest, Cardiff
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
1997 and Elizabeth’s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Mutti has come up with a novel solution – she is going to claim compensation from the Hungarian Government – hard enough for someone with a clear mind, but...