Sins as Red as Scarlet: the true story of a Devon Town in Turmoil
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Time Slip
- Era(s): C17th and present
It is 1682. Across the land, the Age of Reason has begun; scientific thought is ousting superstitious belief. The menacing days of the witchfinder have all but gone. Nevertheless, in Devon’s county town, three impoverished women from Byddeforde are...
- Location(s): Africa, Europe, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of Adebayo, a young Nigerian boy. He is attracted by the notion of Dickensian London and sets off through Africa for Europe, alongside people smugglers and desperate companions. The author has labeled this book as...
- Location(s): Vienna, Budapest
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the Ganges The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House,...
- 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...
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