- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The English Lesson – A Novella. Toula receives an invitation to her granddaughter’s third birthday. To attend means a trip from her beloved Greece to England, where her daughter’s family have settled. Her husband refuses to go and in...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted...
- Location(s): London, France, The Urals
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Raglan Book 1) Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country’s most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution. And that’s exactly...
- Location(s): Paris, Scotland, Spain
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Zoe Wilder has the unflashy, solitary life of an academic, studying ciphers in literature at a California university. When her research takes her to a cryptology conference in Madrid, she’s not expecting to kick off the Enigma Challenge, a...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2, 1940s
Windyedge Airfield, Scotland. World War II. Louisa Adair, newly orphaned and shunned for her mixed-race heritage, has come here to the edge of the world to look after an old lady with a dark past. Jamie Beaufort-Stuart is a...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s the most anticipated event of the decade: Big Lou and Fat Bob’s wedding and everyone is invited! After a wonderful day, Big Lou crashes back down to earth and finds that she is a victim of her own...
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
From the pen of one of Iran’s rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead. Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Espionage, Suspense
- Era(s): 1950s
1950s London: the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier, senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, is actually CIA bureau chief in London. The Arms Race informs much of the action in this fast-paced page turner...
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to...
- Location(s): Mali
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1400s
Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became...
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