- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Renaissance, 1478
1478: Gianetta and Matteo have a happy life, working in service to the wealthy Rosini family. They are used to entertaining rich and powerful members of Florentine society in Palazzo Rosini, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici and Botticelli...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII
High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now – in the aftermath of World War 1 – it is a convalescent home for sick...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A retired judge drops dead at a swish party in Kolkata. The needle of suspicion points to Punjabi mirchi Dolly Luthra. Now it’s up to her friend, the strait-laced Mrinalini Sen, to don the detective’s hat and clear Dolly’s...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Mythological
This moving adaptation of the classic children’s story Cinderella tells how a disfigured Algonquin girl wins the heart of a mysterious being who lives by Lake Ontario near her village. The powerful Invisible Being is looking for a wife,...
- Location(s): Harrogate
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction? A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
With emotional precision and narrative subtlety, The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society. Against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives,...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1900s
From the early 1900s right up to the 1930s, the Royal Hotel was one of the most popular hotels in Liverpool. Situated in Lime Street, the Royal was run by the Winslade family. It was also their home. The...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1760s (Enlightenment)
It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor, the court physician Struensee....
The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
- Location(s): India, England
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 19th century, 20th century
Rebel, Princess, Suffragette: this is the incredible true story of the life of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, a forgotten heroine of the early twentieth century. Born in 1876, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last Sikh...
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