- 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...
- 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...
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