The Personal History of Rachel Dupree
- Location(s): South Dakota
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel and Isaac DuPree left Chicago to stake a claim in this unforgiving land. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely...
- Location(s): Valletta
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1800s
This book takes up where Gaston Leroux left “The Phantom of the Opera”. In Paris is alive after the fire, and turns his eye on the Opera House in Valletta, run down and in need of TLC. Together with...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Lazaro family are carpenters who would rather be piano-makers. In the dusty back room of their carpentry shop in Lisbon is the ‘piano cemetery’, filled with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing and rebuilding...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s/1950s
In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese, with terrible...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune...
- Location(s): Berlin, Zurich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
- Location(s): Damascus, Syria
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
A metaphysical journalist in search of echoes rather than analogies, hints as opposed to verities, Kociejowski discovers once again at the periphery of Damascene society–for the outcast is often made of the very thing that rejects him–a way to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest – a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum’s bedroom at the...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own...
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