- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): early 20th century
Sophia Seddon and Grace Thompson are poles apart – the one a member of the notorious Seddons of Plover Street, the other the vicar’s spoilt only child. But their childhood friendship is revived when they find themselves fighting a...
- Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Pittsburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1900s 1970s
THE COUNTERFEIT DETECTIVE is an epic Gothic literary crime thriller set mostly in Victorian London in 1900 but also in 1970s England, Scotland and the United States. An American professor discovers the diaries of John Ledbury, known as the...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
Edna O’Brien’s first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have...
The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1896
Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs was published in 1896, and it quickly garnered a reputation for its truthfulness and the quality of its writing. Rudyard Kipling described it as ‘immense–it is the very life,’ and...
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
- Location(s): Nicaragua
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
Lives don’t get much more quixotic or passionately driven than that of the Nicaraguan revolutionary Gioconda Belli. She may have been educated by nuns and dazzled all as a well-heeled society girl, but Gioconda lifted her “guilt of privilege”...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
They’ll do anything to get out. She’ll do anything to keep them in. When happily married Grace comes home early one night and catches her husband, Dominic, with another woman in the cabin at the bottom of their garden,...
The Courtesan, Her Lover and I
- Location(s): Rampur
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century / Contemporary
TWO WOMEN WRITERS. TWO CENTURIES. A CREATIVE KINSHIP. In the royal courts of nineteenth-century Rampur, courtesan-poet Munni Bai Hijab captivates the legendary Urdu poet Dagh Dehlvi, who immortalizes her in his verses while inadvertently eclipsing her voice. More than...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years,...
- Location(s): Pulau Sibu
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pulau Kalah is a fictional island off the eastern coast of Malaysia. Inspired by Pulau Sibu near Tioman IT’S THE PERFECT ESCAPE… UNTIL THERE IS NO ESCAPE Welcome to Turtle Cove. A luxury resort surrounded by pristine sea and...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2020
The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was...
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