- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical
Margot Baumann has left school to work in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Margot is shielded from the camp’s brutality, as she has...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): early 21st century
Natalie Cleary must risk her future and leap blindly into a vast unknown for the chance to build a new world with the boy she loves. Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical...
- Location(s): Geneva, Lake Geneva
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
- Era(s): 1816
Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1940s
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel’s story, set...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre WW2
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
- Era(s): contemporary
Is it worse to deceive to your husband or the police? Rikke is lying to them both. But how many lies can she get away with? When her upstairs neighbour Jørgen is found murdered, she’s questioned alongside her husband....
- Location(s): Algiers
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to 1990s
The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall 1813-1815 (Poldark Book 10)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1813
Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription Amor gignit amorem haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross,...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s
Shelly fells as if she’s living in a fantasyland. She’s spending the school year in southern California, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on trees, and lawns are mowed in winter. When the star of the basketball team...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Victorian (late 19th century)
Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by...
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