- Location(s): Ukraine, Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1903-1920
The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new and assured voice in historical fiction. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow––a life filled with...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1940s
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe’s latest client is Orfamay Quest. She’s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or at least that’s what she tells Marlowe, offering him just twenty dollars for his trouble....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Luna loses her beloved mother, she’s bereft: her mother was her only family, and without her Luna feels rootless. Then the chance discovery of a collection of letters in her mother’s belongings sends her on an unexpected journey....
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
It’s April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, Esther and Kitty – two very different women – are forced to make the same brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai,...
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- Location(s): Hobart
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving―and astonishing―best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying―if her three children would just allow it....
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off...