The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Gothic
- Era(s): The Republican Era
From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even...
- Location(s): Tripoli, London, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and 1930s
The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast, the ‘lost’ territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager...
The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Reema runs to remember the life she left behind in Syria. Caylin runs to find what she’s lost. Under the grey Glasgow skies, twelve-year-old refugee Reema is struggling to find her place in a new country, with a new...
- Location(s): Lithuania
- Genre(s): Children
This hope-filled children’s book teaches young readers about family, happiness, and friendship. Complete with stunning illustrations, The Fox on the Swing was selected to the final of the Nami International Picture Book Illustration Contest and to the Bologna Children’s...
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
- Location(s): Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Terrible things have been going on in the Balkans for centuries, and they are likely to go on for centuries more to come. It is an area of great contrasts — geographically beautiful, yet the underlying crust of the...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Veronica Rosenthal 1) When she hears about the suicide of a local train driver who has jumped off the roof of a block of flats, leaving a suicide note confessing to four mortal ‘accidents’ on the train tracks, she...
- Location(s): Brisbane, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1980s, 1930s
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book — and a mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly...
The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1936
1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin’s daughter dies suddenly – and in mysterious circumstances – mission...
- Location(s): Jamaica, Kilburn, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1873
Kilburn, 1873. The ‘Tichborne Trial’ has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be – or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1863/1864 onwards
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the...
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