- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
An island of myth, legend . . . and murder? As the summer sun beats down on the ancient town of Acitrezza, a folk festival plays out in the picturesque harbour. Music, laughter and the aroma of local delicacies...
- Location(s): Barrow in Furness
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Barrow-in-Furness, 1933 The days of the Barrow Union at Roose are numbered and it is due be closed, along with all the other workhouses. Instead ‘Cottage Homes’ have been set up for pauper children, where they live under the...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A cunning, twisty, and unsettling novel of psychological suspense with a startling conclusion by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Patient’s Secret. Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Molly the maid is no stranger to secrets… She sees everything behind closed doors at the Regency Grand hotel: wiping away the dust and grime of guests passing through. But one secret lies much closer to home. An old...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 1600s
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster’s The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. “In the end,...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Renaissance
Florence, 1584. Rumours are spreading about the virility of a prince marrying into the powerful Medici family. Orphan Giulia is chosen to put an end to the gossip. In return she will gain her freedom, and start a new...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Italian Riviera, Rome
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in this electrifying modern homage to Agatha Christie that is filled with “rich, complex characters, taut prose, and twists and turns that...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th/20th centuries
The Making of Modern Burma is a history of the country from the nineteenth to early twentieth century. In a sophisticated and much-needed account, the author argues that many aspects of contemporary Burmese society are the creations of the...
The Making of the Georgian Nation
- Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th / 20th centuries
Like the other republics floating free after the demise of the Soviet empire, the independent republic of Georgia is reinventing its past, recovering what had been forgotten or distorted during the long years of Russian and Soviet rule. Whether...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Tanizaki’s masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical...
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