- Location(s): Massachusetts, Mexico
- Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s looking back
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. ‘Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches’: that...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers – many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal –...
- Location(s): Galveston, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1900
Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns...
The Big Book of the UK: Facts, folklore and fascinations from around the United Kingdom
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
Welcome… Fáilte… Croeso… Fair faa ye… to the United Kingdom! The Big Book of the UK introduces readers to customs and culture of the United Kingdom. In this BIG book you can: – Learn about the sport of “dwile...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 27 in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series “I am a fortunate woman to have such an eventful life,” observes Mma Ramotswe of the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Perhaps, but...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A funny, heartwarming and page-turning novel about a British-Asian mother and daughter, who clash over the plans for the bride’s Big Day. Noor has no interest in getting married (much to the aunties’ distress). Growing up she saw first-hand...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year’s Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are...
- Location(s): Russia, Central Asia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35...
The Big Sleep (Phillip Marlowe)
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood’s two wild, devil-may-care...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Present day
Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry shaping India in a period of breakneck change – from controversial prime minister Narendra Modi, victor...
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