- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post WW1 onwards
This book is set primarily in Boston, post WW1. It tells the epic story of two families, one white, one black, both trying to find their way through a new order, interweaving in real life people and events. A...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), West Virginia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist’s journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her...
- Location(s): India, England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
What is a life without Art and Beauty? Not one that Julia chooses to live. And so she searches the world for both, discovering happiness through the lens of a camera. A fictional account of pioneer photographer, Julia Margaret...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight...
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s -1960s
In this evocative and thrilling epic novel, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan’s New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
2014 IPPY Award for Best Adult Fiction E-book Finalist for the da Vinci Eye Prize From the author of Made in Italy comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the world’s most magnificent...
- Location(s): Munich
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Between WWI and WWII
In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century. Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the...
- Location(s): Tennessee
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1950 Tennessee, a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she’s only in her early thirties) and she takes that label with good humour and a...
- Location(s): Viareggio, Marseilles (Marseille), Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Domenica Cabrelli had two great loves of her life. The first, her childhood sweetheart: a boy from the same small, sun-drenched Italian town of Viareggio. A romance born out of yearning and shared history; over before it really had...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Kate has been through the fire with her three children … Having been left devastated and homeless after her husband’s affair and the break-up of their family, somehow she has pulled through. Though times are still tough, she’s beginning...
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