The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
First with your head and then with your heart … So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, its a piece of advice...
- Location(s): Paris, Prague, Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1890s
An epicurean book with a vile protagonist, Simonini interwoven with historical threads right up to the beginnings of the Third Reich.
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. Daniel’s thrill at being in such close proximity to the...
- Location(s): Helsinki
- Genre(s): Crime
The opening chapters concern first, two terrified children who are compelled to intervene in a potentially life-threatening struggle between their feuding parents. Then we meet Sinikka, whose function in the plot is yet to become clear. Abruptly the book...
- Location(s): Sweden, Uppsala
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When the mutilated body of tropical fish collector John Jonsson is discovered in Uppsala the police are baffled – he may not have been a saint, but who would want to kill him, and in such a brutal way?...
- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1825
When Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle in their grand plantation house, her mind is full of the poems of Keats and tales of romance . She is nonetheless unprepared for...
- Location(s): London, Monaco
- Era(s): Post WW2
Francis is having dinner in London with his longtime lover, Arnold, when they find a man shot and wounded. Francis uses his wartime medical skills to keep the man alive. M. Joubert, who owns a casino in London, and...
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
- Location(s): Mongolia, Shanghai, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel’s sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives...
- Location(s): Galveston, Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In...
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