- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 69 BC - 30 BC
The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words – by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Told in the first person – from the...
The Memory Be Green: An Oral History of a Devon Village
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
When she first moved to Littleham near Bideford, Liz Shakespeare decided to capture a vanishing way of life by recording the memories of elderly men and women who were born early in the twentieth century. Farmers, housewives and labourers...
- Location(s): Vancouver
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt, and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to...
- Location(s): Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1969 and 1999
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital’s...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1952
In a rural Kentucky river town, “Old Jack” Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America’s past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack...
- Location(s): Australia, Crete
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1
This moving novel of fate and love stretches from the mountains of Crete to the dreams of post-war Australia, is inspired by historical events, and of the Australian soldiers who took part in the Battle of Crete during World...
- Location(s): London, Liverpool
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry with a gripping tale of two sisters haunted by one tragic night… On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan’s greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river...
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