- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th century
WELCOME TO THE BARBIZON, NEW YORK’S PREMIER WOMEN-ONLY HOTEL Built in 1927, New York’s Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the ‘Modern Woman’ seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for...
- Location(s): Barcelona, Girona (Gerona), Nimes
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Connections Book 1) EVERY CRIME SCENE IS A WORK OF ART. Benjamin Blake is no ordinary detective … Specialising in the criminal underworld of stolen and forged art, things don’t always go the right way for Benjamin. But...
The Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach
- Location(s): Seychelles
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
We need a bookseller for the Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach… apply here! When Harper sees an ad for what must surely be the most idyllic job in the world, she’s almost tempted. But she can’t possibly leave her...
- Location(s): Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun. On one of Addis Ababa’s main roundabouts today sits a huge recently installed...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Napoleonic
This is the first book in the Wentworth Family saga, about a family living in the Napoleonic times who are involved in Brittany and Devon because the mother, Sempronie, comes from a Breton family and has property there. The...
- Location(s): County Cavan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The iconic debut novel by ‘one of the greatest writers of our era’ (Hilary Mantel) and ‘the Irish novelist everyone should read’ (Colm Tóibín). Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish...
- Location(s): Bournemouth
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2022
The Bartlett family are close. Thirty-two-year-old, Jessie has two younger brothers and a sister. Her biological father, Allan, died when she was five and her mum Kathleen remarried. Jessie’s stepdad, David has been her anchor and although now confined...
- Location(s): Basel
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It is the end of October, the northern Swiss city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, 1700s, WW2
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to...
- Location(s): Germany, Moscow, Riga, Tel Aviv
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1905-1975
Chris Kraus’ The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv....
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