- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1963
Jane Green reimagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging ’60s Claire grew up in a small town, far from the glitz and glamour of London. On the...
- Location(s): Brighton, Amelia Island
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar. Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous. Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life. Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family. One...
Sisters at the Edge of the World
- Location(s): Aberdeenshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Iron Age
When Morragh speaks to another person for the very first time, she has no idea that he is an invader in her land. What she does next constitutes a huge betrayal of her people, threatening her closest relationships and...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1990s
From the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs. Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess...
- Location(s): Romney Marsh, Kent
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Life is hard for Willa, Grace and Freya, and their three younger sisters. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him – The Curse of Six Daughters. With...
Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury
- Location(s): Lake Erie, Lake Huron
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1913
It’s 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream—to open a restaurant back home—but knows she’d never convince...
- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In the midst of WWII, an English mother, Norah, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Malaya, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific, swiftly overrunning the Allied...
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege, Sitt Marie Rose, is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the Civil War in Lebanon. It reveals the tribal mentality which makes the Middle East a dangerous powerhouse. It...
Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant
- Location(s): India, Japan, Spain, Venezuela
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
“If you’re married to a spy, the always fraught arena of a relationship turns into a positive minefield. What does that all-night absence mean? What can you begin to say to the kids? In Six Car Lengths Behind an...
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