Reluctant Conspirator: The Legacy of Pliny the Elder
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Ancient Rome - 1st Century AD
In the first century AD, Rome was at the pinnacle of its power. Mighty as the empire was, Rome spends much of the first century in tumult. Politics had become a blood sport. Assassinations, treachery, and despotism were the...
- Location(s): Cambridgeshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The body of a young migrant is found hanging from a tree. No signs of struggle. No indication that it is anything other than a tragic suicide. Except for a note, pinned to his trousers, that reads ‘The dead...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930
On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe...
- Location(s): Spain, Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Amid the shadows of war, one family faces an impossible choice that will change their lives forever. Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
From the moment Liverpool teenager Jess stars in the school musical, she knows that she’s GOT to be a star. Fast forward a few years and the closest the now 22 year old Jessica has got to stardom is...
- Location(s): Builth Wells, Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Newly promoted DS Julie Kite is at a crossroads. Her husband’s new job takes her away from urban Manchester and its inner city problems to a new life in tranquil mid-Wales. It is to be a new start for...
Remember Tokyo: A Foreign Affairs Mystery
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
In Tokyo, Charlie Hillier discovers you can’t always bank on the truth. Fresh off a harrowing experience in Russia, Charlie is keen to lay low, and his latest posting to Tokyo offers him the chance to immerse himself in...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1976
Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walk through the...
- 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...
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