The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1940s
Growing up in the heart of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto, Duddy Kravitz is obsessed with his grandfather’s saying, “A man without land is nothing.” In his relentless pursuit of property and his drive to become a somebody, he will wheel...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence...
- Location(s): Pembrokeshire
- Genre(s): Thriller, Historical, Time Slip
- Era(s): Present day and Stuart
Get ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about British royal history… Derbyshire, England, 1603 Elizabeth I is dead and the Tudor reign is over. As the men in power decide to pass the throne to the Scottish...
The Archers Unseen: A secret history of Ambridge
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Blossom Hill Cottage – a secluded place with a dark past. It’s where Peggy discovered her husband Jack was an alcoholic, and it’s also where Helen stabbed her husband Rob, desperate in the face of his manipulation and control....
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939
Moscow, 1939. In the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison, a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there. The writer is Isaac Babel. The great author of Red...
- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
For my whole life I had been looking for home. But why would that be in a place that I’d left? Perhaps I had to keep moving forward in order to find it…’ Soon after upending her life to...
- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition–and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don’t come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group—Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden. Returning from a walk one morning...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A ruthless arms billionaire and a disgraced history professor share a terrible secret. Nat Turnbull is dragged abruptly from his quiet academic life when his former mentor Professor Gordon Wolfe is arrested for stealing top secret archive documents dating...
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