- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Suspense
- Era(s): 1970's & 1990's
After a horrific accident shatters her world and leaves her an amputee, American attorney Emily Mclean moves to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to work with landmine survivors. She hopes to reinvent herself in this new land, leaving behind her sense...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1915, WWI
Sasha can see the future. But can she use her power to save her brothers and change their destiny? A stunning World War One anniversary edition of the mesmerising novel from award-winning author, Marcus Sedgwick. It is 1915, WWI....
- Location(s): England, Scotland
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
Twelve-year-old Art lives in a small village in Scotland. Her mother has always made potions that cure the sick, but now the townspeople say she is a witch. One cloudless night, Art’s mother is arrested and taken to England....
- Location(s): North Korea, South Korea
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1426
Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur’s The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page. 1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani’s family has never been the same since she and her...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): N/A
Million-copy bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, selected by bookshop staff as the book they most wanted to hand-sell: A tender and uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler. ”A mesmerising reading experience for...
- Location(s): Provincetown
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it’s paid off: at twenty-eight she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career, and the hard-won admiration of her father. But with one careless mistake, she’s on the...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1966
FIVE STRANGERS IN FLORENCE, EACH WITH A DANGEROUS SECRET. AND AN APOCALYPTIC FLOOD THREATENING TO REVEAL EVERYTHING. A wife on the run, a student searching for stolen art, a cleaner who has lined more than his pockets, a policeman...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Secrets and half-truths. These litter Renia Baranczka’s past, but the city of Paris has offered an escape and the refuge of a dream job. The specialty plant shop buzzes with activity and has brought her to a new friend,...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Historical, Biography
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author’s coming-of-age in a bruised...
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