- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.’ In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can’t imagine leaving, but three women couldn’t wait to escape. When each must return – Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It has been ten years since Shabanu staged her death to secure the safety of her daughter, Mumtaz, from her husband’s murderous brother. Mumtaz has been raised by her father’s family with the education and security her mother desired...
- Location(s): Philadelphia, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
REESE’S FEBRUARY 2023 BOOK CLUB PICK From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how...
- Location(s): Qatar
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s to 1970s
Qatar is now the richest nation on earth but in the 1920s the tiny desert country struggled to survive. Over half a century we follow the Al Bahr family, whose traditional pearl-diving days must change in a world of...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
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