- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage–a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back–before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent...
- Location(s): Detroit
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 19th Century onwards
By the end of the nineteenth century, Detroit, founded by the French as a fur-trading post, was thriving. In 1913 Henry Ford began mass-producing cars at his Model T plant, transforming the area into the Silicon Valley of its...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): AD 79
The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in...
The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1914
Petrograd, 1914. A country on a knife edge. The story of two people caught in the middle – with everything to lose… A stunning debut from a talented new Australian voice in historical fiction. Valentina Yershova’s position in the...
- Location(s): Kent
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting...
- Location(s): London, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 2017 / 1952
Each Dior dress tells a story… London, 2017. When her beloved grandmother, Sylvie, sends her to Paris to retrieve a dress she wore decades before, Lucille sees the perfect opportunity to briefly escape the pressures of her own life....
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): late 19th century
At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he’s poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind,...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s / early 21st century
Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in...
- Location(s): Northern Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1995
It’s summer 1995 and Dan Willis is living in Santander, northern Spain, trying to get his life back on track, when he receives an unexpected call from an old school friend and Gulf War veteran, Billy Wyatt, who wants...
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