- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be – passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself...
- Location(s): Eyam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1660s
In a wholly original take on the Eyam story, Joanne Burn’s elegant prose, rich in authentic detail, results in a rewarding and timely read — SARAH BURTON, author of ‘The Strange Adventures of H’ Lyrically written, The Hemlock Cure...
- Location(s): Jaipur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2019
In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy’s mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian...
- Location(s): Surrey, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1928 to 1930
London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it...
- Location(s): Bergen-Belsen, London, North Wales
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII / Present Day
1945. Hedi Fischer is jostled off the train and through the gates of a Nazi concentration camp. As the prisoners are pushed inside, she frantically searches for a familiar face – anybody to make her feel less alone here....
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Brave, important and exquisitely written’ Sigrid Nunez Guardian, Independent and New Statesman most anticipated novels of 2021 Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static Francesca is Caro’s stepmother, and Pauly’s mother. A scientist, she can...
- Location(s): Darjeeling, Nepal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie’s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party,...
- Location(s): Bay of Islands, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s and modern
rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘A passionate memoir.’ Neil MacGregor ‘A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which...










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