- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
Mrs Stone is rich and famous, and becomes a widow. But as her looks fade and old age creep in, she looks for distraction and dedides to settle in Rome. But she cannt escape the machinations of age and...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): pre-Russian revolution
As the Russia of Nicholas and Aleksandra rushes full speed toward catastrophe, The Romanov Bride follows the lives of two revolutionary souls, that of Grand Duchess Elisavyeta (or Ella), sister of the tsaritsa Aleksandra, and that of Pavel, a...
- Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage—as her older sister Alix has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son....
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and war is looming on the...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2010s
Three law school students in Washington DC uncover a web of financial interests linked to one sinister man. He runs the “diploma mill” college they all attend, the loans companies they accrue debt with, and parts of the banking...
- Location(s): Chad
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s
The Roots of Heaven takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Nazi concentration camp he attributes to his fixation on the freedom...
The Ropewalker: Between Three Plagues
- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
Jaan Kross’s trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a...
- Location(s): Catalonia, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Imagine being flown to a new job at a luxury estate belonging to a fabulously rich but obnoxious Englishman, in the Catalonian mountains. This man’s bizarre character is hard to handle, but he is paying you handsomely and you...
- Location(s): Bletchley, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 / 1940s
1940, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla has the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII
High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now – in the aftermath of World War 1 – it is a convalescent home for sick...
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