- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
The incredible story of the slave who became a Japanese samurai. In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Andrea Camilleri’s sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigàta harbour – and into a puzzling new mystery....
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a strange planetary spectacle, creating an ever-changing map which even...
- Location(s): Europe, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s- 1940s
‘I’d rather take a picture than be one,’ Lee Miller declares, as she arrives in Paris one cool day in 1929. Lee has left behind her life in New York and a successful modelling career at Vogue to pursue...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war, while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens he witnesses the poisoning...
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1946
It is 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a hated colleague is found dead, and...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): 1600s
The life and loves of Michelangelo in the turburlent years of the Renaissance, beautifully crafted and a detailed account of the artist, his work and his setting.
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In waters as far and icy as the Bering Sea, a fierce, lost young woman finds herself through the hard work of fishing and the stubborn love of real friendship. Tara Marconi has made her way from Philly to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Renaissance (16th century)
To the legendary clairvoyant Maestro Nostradamus, the future is forever in motion. But for young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, his apprentice and protector, the present is hard enough to contend with. His days are spent poring over astrology charts and...
- Location(s): Lincoln
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Early medieval
After years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning faith-but not even...
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