- Location(s): Philadelphia, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
REESE’S FEBRUARY 2023 BOOK CLUB PICK From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how...
- Location(s): Covent Garden, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
December, 1765. In the early hours of the morning, Sukey Maynard flees her home – a brothel in Covent Garden. Her maidenhood is about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, and she is too frightened to stay....
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
1935, Hedoné House, a luxurious sanatorium for the creative elite dedicated to the groundbreaking treatment of tuberculosis. As the doctor’s new wife, Agnes Templeton has pledged her life to a house of fever. But Hedoné is no ordinary hospital....
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1705
The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton’s million copy bestselling The Miniaturist. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Everyone in the Istanbul suburb of Moda knows the Devil’s House. A crumbling Ottoman mansion and once the home of a princess, it is a place associated with ill-fortune. The princess’s 4 children, now in old age, still live...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian Era
Zinnie and her sisters live in the murky tunnels beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town. They keep out of the way of the authorities and remain undetected. Until, that is, rumours of a ghost bring unwanted visitors into the caverns they...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Novella
- Era(s): 1978
Winner of the Guardian fiction prize, this novella and nine short stories describe life in a Zimbabwean township. They are about the brutalization of the individual’s mental processes, until madness, violence and despair become the normal state of affairs...
The House of Impossible Beauties
- Location(s): Harlem
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
A gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Gothic
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba – a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1870s
Edith Wharton’s dark view of society, the somber economics of marriage, and the powerlessness of the unwedded woman in the 1870s emerge dramatically in the tragic novel The House of Mirth. Faced with an array of wealthy suitors, New...
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