- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America’s involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to...
- Location(s): Costa del Sol, London, Rutland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/80s and 2004
1970, London, England Sally, dressed in brown visits Father Christmas at a church fair. He rescues her as she trips and stumbles into his arms. As he hoists her onto his lap she thinks she feels the breath of...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s/50s
This Novella (in this edition together the Fallen Idol)is set in Vienna, it was intended as a draft for a screenplay. Greene felt the film was superior to his writing. Gone are the fin de siècle coffee houses, and...
- Location(s): Europe, Romania, Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Various
What is the Third Secret? It is rumoured to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive, night after...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once home to the March family – fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling secret which strikes at...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is the first of the Rose Trilogy. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with its rolling meadows and secret byways, may seem idyllic, but it is not without its thorns. THE ROSE TRILOGY is the stirring saga of two Amish sisters...
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900s-1960s
One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough’s magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Location(s): Dejima
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young...
- Location(s): Thessaloniki (Salonika)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th and early 21st Centuries
From the fly leaf: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafogou’s home in Asia Minor is destroyed by...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 17th Century
A historical romance, “The Three Musketeers” tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D’Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King’s Musketeers – Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye...
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