- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): pre-Russian revolution
As the Russia of Nicholas and Aleksandra rushes full speed toward catastrophe, The Romanov Bride follows the lives of two revolutionary souls, that of Grand Duchess Elisavyeta (or Ella), sister of the tsaritsa Aleksandra, and that of Pavel, a...
- Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage—as her older sister Alix has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son....
- Location(s): Chad
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s
The Roots of Heaven takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Nazi concentration camp he attributes to his fixation on the freedom...