- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A retired judge drops dead at a swish party in Kolkata. The needle of suspicion points to Punjabi mirchi Dolly Luthra. Now it’s up to her friend, the strait-laced Mrinalini Sen, to don the detective’s hat and clear Dolly’s...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Mythological
This moving adaptation of the classic children’s story Cinderella tells how a disfigured Algonquin girl wins the heart of a mysterious being who lives by Lake Ontario near her village. The powerful Invisible Being is looking for a wife,...
- Location(s): Harrogate
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction? A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
With emotional precision and narrative subtlety, The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society. Against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives,...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1900s
From the early 1900s right up to the 1930s, the Royal Hotel was one of the most popular hotels in Liverpool. Situated in Lime Street, the Royal was run by the Winslade family. It was also their home. The...
- Location(s): Windsor
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 / present
A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But when...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1760s (Enlightenment)
It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor, the court physician Struensee....
The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
- Location(s): India, England
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 19th century, 20th century
Rebel, Princess, Suffragette: this is the incredible true story of the life of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, a forgotten heroine of the early twentieth century. Born in 1876, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last Sikh...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
Old Rosa the bag lady shuffles along the streets of New York, stinking, silent and shunned by man and beast. Time and again her nephew, Michael Marcinkus the grocer, has tried to help – but Rosa remains unknowable, hushed...
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