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The Photographer’s Wife

The Photographer’s Wife
  • Author(s): Suzanne Joinson
  • Location(s): Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

It is 1920, and Palestine has just fallen into the hands of the British. 11 year old English girl Prudence is sent to Jerusalem to live with her father, a government architect who plans on redesigning the Holy City....

The Physician’s Daughter

The Physician’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Martha Conway
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

In a world made for men, can one woman break free from tradition and walk a new path? It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended, and 18-year old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong...

The Pianist of Yarmouk

The Pianist of Yarmouk
  • Author(s): Aeham Ahmad
  • Location(s): Damascus
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed by war. Amidst ruin and despair, he begins to play. He plays of love and hope, he...

The Piano

The Piano
  • Author(s): Jane Campion, Kate Pullinger
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): late 19th Century

In the award-winning film The Piano, writer/director Jane Campion created a story so original and powerful it fascinated millions of moviegoers. This novel stands independent of the film, exploring the mysteries of Ada’s muteness, the secret of her daughter’s...

The Piano Man’s Daughter

The Piano Man’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Timothy Findley
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother’s own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man’s Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie’s mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued...

The Piano Raft

The Piano Raft
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Yorkshire, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Piano Raft is an unforgettable, heart-warming story about love, a piano and a hand-built raft that will have you enthralled, laughing and sitting on the edge of your seat as you sail (precariously) upon the rivers and canals...

The Pickup

The Pickup
  • Author(s): Nadine Gordimer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman’s daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie Summers’ car...

The Picture House Murders

The Picture House Murders
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Murder is no occupation for a lady… or is it? 1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her time. Rather than attending Oxford to bag an eligible Duke (as her mother, Lady Vale, so desperately hoped), she...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Author(s): Oscar Wilde
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!’ Wilde’s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray...

The Pieces from Berlin

The Pieces from Berlin
  • Author(s): Michael Pye
  • Location(s): Berlin, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

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