- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Ancient Rome
Beneath the Colosseum’s arena lies a labyrinth… and a darkness that threatens everything Althea holds dear. Rome, 82 AD. Under the rule of the new Emperor Domitian, a vast subterranean maze is being built below the arena. Lit by...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1997
e On Borrowed Time is set in Hong Kong and Shanghai over the period 1996/1997 – including the handover of Hong Kong to China. The novel explores the choices that people have to make; in particular between doing what...
- Location(s): Africa, England
- Genre(s): Animals
- Era(s): 1960’s
A memoir in which we meet the cats that have slunk and bullied and charmed their way into Doris Lessing’s life. She tells their stories- their exploits, rivalries, terrors, affections, ancient gestures, and learned behaviours- with vivid simplicity.
- Location(s): Lincolnshire
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Uncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach....
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): late 20th century
In a political age, in which the struggle against external and internal oppression has become central in Arabic poetry, Nizar Qabbani has succeeded in re-establishing the vitality and perennial force of the erotic in human life. Picking up a...
- Location(s): Fire Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories. Whether with her pen to a manuscript or curled up with a book while at her beloved Fire Island cottage, her imagination alight with a good tale, she could...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it’s the personal battles of Folly Beach’s residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own… To...
- Location(s): Washington DC, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
The bestselling author of “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray” delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks’...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After twenty indolent years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Englishman Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. The party gave no sign of ending: nights burned away in private clubs and restaurants; days were spent...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 20th century
From the waning glory of the Old South… The plantation house, the lands, the golden traditions of Ashley Barony made it the pride of Charleston. But its fortunes fell violently, irrevocably, on Margaret Garden Tradd’s scandalous wedding day. To...
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