The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Moden
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful — and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse she decides to head south. What...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th Century
Spanning twentieth-century Egyptian history and opening with the true story of a prominent Cairo businessman’s murder, this rags-to-riches story wondrously combines real-life events with fiction, told by a “magical storyteller” It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo’s...
- Location(s): Belgravia, London
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): 1870s
A notorious thief joins up with Belgravia’s most eligible gentleman to steal for Queen and country… London, 1879. Della Rose scans the crowds until she finds her target. A well-dressed gentleman with a fine gold watch. Stealing it will...