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The House of Fortune

The House of Fortune
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1705

The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton’s million copy bestselling The Miniaturist. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s...

The House of Four

The House of Four
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Turkey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Everyone in the Istanbul suburb of Moda knows the Devil’s House. A crumbling Ottoman mansion and once the home of a princess, it is a place associated with ill-fortune. The princess’s 4 children, now in old age, still live...

The House of Hidden Wonders

The House of Hidden Wonders
  • Author(s): Sharon Gosling
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

Zinnie and her sisters live in the murky tunnels beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town. They keep out of the way of the authorities and remain undetected. Until, that is, rumours of a ghost bring unwanted visitors into the caverns they...

The House of Hunger

The House of Hunger
  • Author(s): Dambudzo Marechera
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Novella
  • Era(s): 1978

Winner of the Guardian fiction prize, this novella and nine short stories describe life in a Zimbabwean township. They are about the brutalization of the individual’s mental processes, until madness, violence and despair become the normal state of affairs...

The House of Impossible Beauties

The House of Impossible Beauties
  • Author(s): Joseph Cassara
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

A gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the...

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth
  • Author(s): Edith Wharton
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

Edith Wharton’s dark view of society, the somber economics of marriage, and the powerlessness of the unwedded woman in the 1870s emerge dramatically in the tragic novel The House of Mirth. Faced with an array of wealthy suitors, New...

The House of One Hundred Clocks

The House of One Hundred Clocks
  • Author(s): A M Howell
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 20th century

JUNE, 1905. Helena and her parrot, Orbit, are swept off to Cambridge when her father is appointed clock-winder to one of the wealthiest men in England. There is only one rule: the clocks must never stop. But Helena discovers...

The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii

The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
  • Author(s): Jack London
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Jack London is mainly known for his stories of the deep north, like The Call of the Wild and White Fang, but he also spent considerable time in Hawaii, visiting first in 1907, then staying a while in 1915....

The House of Special Purpose

The House of Special Purpose
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer’s son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin’s bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to...

The House of the Coptic Woman

The House of the Coptic Woman
  • Author(s): Ashraf El-Ashmawi
  • Location(s): Upper Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Hoda shows up at his lodgings. She is on...

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