- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1944
In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2020
SHE’LL RISK EVERYTHING TO CATCH A SERIAL KILLER . . . As the pandemic begins, Josie Thompson is a struggling waitress, mom of two great kids. She wants a fresh start far from her abusive husband, the confining small...
The Last Camel: True Stories about Somalia
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
The Last Camel is a collection of stories about the people who live in a little village in Northern Somalia. These are compelling tales about African spirits, clever women, untouchable Midgaans, sagacious elders who struggle with modern technology, bandits,...
- Location(s): Central Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A woman walks the Camino de Santiago meeting new friends and finding a version of herself that she thought was lost. One year after her husband’s death, Julie embarks on the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, a journey of pain,...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Having been forced to leave his father, sister and home town of Rome at the age of seven, Francesco De Luca grows up in England, never fully understanding why he was parted from his family. Twenty-six years later, Francesco’s...
- Location(s): Aspen
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941 and present day
John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years — a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom...
- 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...
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