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The Mad Women’s Ball

The Mad Women’s Ball
  • Author(s): Victoria Mas
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1885

‘Enter the danse of this little masterpiece and let yourself be dazzled. Assured of hitting the bestseller lists’ The Parisian; ‘Essential reading’ Cosmopolitan ‘A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de Coeur against the condition of women in this...

The Madman of Freedom Square

The Madman of Freedom Square
  • Author(s): Hassan Blasim
  • Location(s): Baghdad, Amsterdam, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980 to early 2000s

From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam… Blasim s stories present an uncompromising...

The Madness

The Madness
  • Author(s): Narcís Oller, Douglas Suttle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid/Late 19th Century

Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...

The Madness Of Crowds

The Madness Of Crowds
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan,...

The Madness of July

The Madness of July
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

‘Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.’ Charles Cumming London, mid-1970s. A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature rises with each...

The Madonnas of Leningrad

The Madonnas of Leningrad
  • Author(s): Debra Dean
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

The Madonnas of Leningrad, the first novel by Seattle professor Debra Dean, is the story of Marina, a young museum docent who takes refuge in the Hermitage during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. The paintings and artifacts are gone,...

The Madwoman of Serrano

The Madwoman of Serrano
  • Author(s): Dina Salústio
  • Location(s): Cape Verde
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

TRANSLATED BY JETHRO SOUTAR The first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde, and the first to be translated into English, The Madwoman of Serrano is a magical tale of rural ideals and urban ambition,...

The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain
  • Author(s): Thomas Mann
  • Location(s): Davos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1910s

Hans Castorp is ‘a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man’ when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans...

The Magic Paintbrush

The Magic Paintbrush
  • Author(s): Julia Donaldson, Joel Stewart (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

With her magic paintbrush, Shen can paint steaming pots full of fish and oysters to feed the hungry people in her village, but when the evil emperor hears of her gift he commands Shen to paint gold for him...

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
  • Author(s): Mitch Albom
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie’s talent is unique, and his amazing journey weaves him through...

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