- Location(s): Europe, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Mid 18th Century
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what...
- Location(s): Denver
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Nothing is as permanent as it appears… Denver, 1962 Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence....
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE SETTING When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Renaissance
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings – the dazzling handiwork of the city’s artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers. At a...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘A remarkable portrait, with deftly woven accounts of weddings and journeys, books and bookselling, relations and squabbles, firmly anchored by pleasing details about food and customs, all set against the backdrop of a derelict city.
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
ARISTOCRAT, AUTHOR, BOOKSELLER, WWII SPY–A THRILLING NOVEL ABOUT REAL-LIFE LITERARY ICON NANCY MITFORD In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Georgian
London, 1775. Books have always been Dorcas Turton’s refuge—but now they may be her salvation. The only surviving child of six, Dorcas should have inherited security and status. But after her mother’s untimely death, she is stunned by the...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th / early 21st centuries
The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it… Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
TWO LIFELONG FRIENDS. Jess loves her work as a high-profile lawyer in Charleston. But when her marriage implodes, she retreats to her childhood home on Cape Cod with her thirty-year-old daughter, Caitlin, hoping to regroup with her longtime best...
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