The Dancing Girl and the Turtle
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of The Dancing Girl and the Turtle. Song Anyi is on the road...
The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Pleasure District
- Location(s): Lahore
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with...
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes and sea where birds fly upside down and wild things threaten to...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a warm and pleasant evening in Oxford, gentle city of poets and scholars, rioters outside a hotel full of asylum seekers set a young refugee on fire. The city – the country – convulses in shock. Is this...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. These brilliant, unsettling tales of...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante’s continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end. Words can bleed. In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Determined to forge her own destiny, Alice Barrow joins the legions of spirited young women better known as the Mill Girls. From dawn until dusk, these ladies work the looms, but the thrill of independence, change in their pockets,...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
A city has to give up one of its secrets for a detective to catch a killer. Liverpool is in the midst of an emergency. Several people have been poisoned. But DI Tara Grogan is not on the case....
- Location(s): Lazio, Rome
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Dr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He’s discovered a group of bones in a tiny hilltop village near Rome but doesn’t know what to make...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Later 1930s and early 1970s
It is 1971, and journalist Frank Goss is assigned to cover Switzerland’s referendum on women’s suffrage. When he arrives in Basel on the border with Germany, he suffers hallucinations that land him in a psychiatric clinic. Ellen is called...
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