The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 20th Century
An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Second half 15th century
Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris’s Musee National...
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Moden
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful — and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse she decides to head south. What...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1850 and 2012
‘I found the photograph album by chance when we were clearing out the old coach house. It must have been sitting on the garage shelf for years among all the other family rejects.’ When a woman finds a lost...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...
- Location(s): Donbas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
The extraordinary new novel by the author of Untraceable. A sealed shaft in a Donbas coal mine contains unimaginable horror: layer upon layer of human bodies, the victims of Red and White terror during the Revolution, of Stalin’s purges,...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th Century
Spanning twentieth-century Egyptian history and opening with the true story of a prominent Cairo businessman’s murder, this rags-to-riches story wondrously combines real-life events with fiction, told by a “magical storyteller” It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo’s...
- Location(s): Belgravia, London
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1870s
A notorious thief joins up with Belgravia’s most eligible gentleman to steal for Queen and country… London, 1879. Della Rose scans the crowds until she finds her target. A well-dressed gentleman with a fine gold watch. Stealing it will...
- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
Edith Magnusson’s rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Citiesthey were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside Nursing Home has quickly becomes the hottest dinner ticket in town. Still, she lays awake wondering how...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A remote Scottish lake The guests arriving at Creaglie Castle are expecting discreet luxury, panoramic views, and perhaps a glimpse of one of its infamous ghosts. No means of escape When a violent storm severs all contact with the...
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