- Location(s): Germany, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1945, 1989
One winter morning in Germany in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. One man catches her eye and she cannot forget him. The following day she receives an...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Europe, Slovakia
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): WW2
Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Oskar Schindler . . . Rudolf Vrba. In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under electrified fences and past armed watchtowers,...
- Location(s): Colchester, Essex
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1890s
Let THE ESSEX SERPENT wrap itself around you this summer London 1893. When Cora Seaborne’s husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one,...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gaby, the youngest of the de Angelis sisters, always secretly knew she was her father Enzo’s favourite; so when Enzo dies on the day her own daughter is born, her life is turned upside down. In the emotional aftermath...
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
- Location(s): Palestine
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1947 - 1949
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1922
In Lappin’s prize-winning, literary gothic tale, the tantalizing love story between American heroine Harriet Sacket and the enigmatic Count Federigo, self-proclaimed Etruscan spirit, is played out in 1922 against the backdrop of eerie Etruscan tombs, boar-infested woods, and elegant...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930
Two women, two secrets: one desperate and extraordinary day. Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The author of The Good Detective delivers a gripping and atmospheric new novel in which a cop takes on a harrowing case and confronts old personal demons. What if the one good thing you did in your life doomed...
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘A fighting woman cannot be imprisoned because her voice is louder than prison walls. This book is proof.’ Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
He’s missing, presumed dead. But she still can’t escape. Charlotte and Sam were partners. In life, and in crime. They never stole from anyone who couldn’t afford it. Wealthy clients, luxury cruise ships. It was easy money, and harmless....
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