The Secret Society of Salzburg
- Location(s): Salzburg, Germany, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Tom Rob Smith’s first book, Child 44, enjoyed unprecedented attention and acclaim (as did its youthful author), so it was inevitable that the appetite for that novel’s successor would be keen. Now it’s here, and The Secret Speech, largely...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 onwards1
A female American spy in Nazi-occupied France finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Beantown Girls. Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and...
- Location(s): Greater Manchester, Scotland
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lifestyle journalist and thirty-something singleton Melissa hashtags, insta’s and snapchats her supposedly fabulous life on every social media platform there is. That is until she wakes up on her birthday, another year older and still alone, wondering if for...
- Location(s): Asia, Burma (Myanmar), China, India, Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII
Before she was Julia Child, the famed “French Chef” who stole hearts, she was Julia McWilliams. Thirty years old and directionless, Julia took a job working for America’s first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture....
- Location(s): Florence, France, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home,...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge...