- Location(s): Darjeeling, India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
No 4 in the Lady Julia Grey series. The honeymoon of Lady Julia Grey and investigator Nicholas Brisbane is interrupted by the arrival of Julia’s sister, Portia, and brother, Plum. Jane, Portia’s former lover is in India, preganant and...
- Location(s): California, Chile
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling...
- Location(s): Siena
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1600s
The Palio: Siena’s famously dangerous and hard-fought horse race. A year of planning, ten riders, three circuits of the piazza – and all over in a single moment. But this year, for two of the women watching, far more...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Various
The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. ‘He never says please’, she sighed, but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called, she always came. In general,...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Era(s): Modern
Readers of Princess Sultana’s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here,...
- Location(s): Baghdad, Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Daughters of Iraq” is the compelling story of three women from the same family. It is the story of emigration from Iraq to Israel in the early 1950’s as experienced by two sisters: Violet, whom we learn about through...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality, secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home. Jean Lux, constrained academic wife and guilty mother, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source. Meanwhile Eve,...
- Location(s): Egypt, North Africa
- Era(s): 1st Century BC
Daughters of the Nile is the final volume in Dray’s trilogy about Cleopatra’s daughter, Cleopatra Selene.