- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Struggling to get back on her feet in the wake of her husband’s premature death and stunned by a paternity suit against her husband’s estate, food writer Maggie McElroy plans a trip to China to investigate the claim and...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1930s
Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli (‘Schiap’) are fighting for recognition as the most successful and influential fashion designer in France, and their rivalry is already legendary. They oppose each other at every turn, in both their politics...
The Last Concubine: The Shogun Quartet #2
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
Japan, 1865, the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man – the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
When journalist Ella Franks is unmasked as a woman writing under a male pseudonym, she loses her job. But having risked everything to write, she refuses to be silenced and leaps at the chance to become a correspondent in...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they’d seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime has passed and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite – to lay ghosts to rest for...
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage–a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back–before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1943/44
Budapest, autumn 1943. Four years into the war, Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe. The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind....
- Location(s): Detroit
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 19th Century onwards
By the end of the nineteenth century, Detroit, founded by the French as a fur-trading post, was thriving. In 1913 Henry Ford began mass-producing cars at his Model T plant, transforming the area into the Silicon Valley of its...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): AD 79
The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in...
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