- Location(s): Rome
Awaiting review
- Location(s): Delaware
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A warm Sunday in November 1957. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day. Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn’t particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role,...
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
“In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all.”...
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Award-winning journalist James Fergusson is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. This corner of the world has long been seen as the rotting...
- Location(s): Central Spain
- Genre(s): Comedy
- Era(s): 2017. Just after the Brexit referendum.
Kenneth Podd is pompous and egotistical. He is also eccentric to the extreme; an ardent supporter of Brexit, he emigrates to Spain shortly after the referendum. Finding the historic town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial a little foreign...
- Location(s): Chicago, Iowa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
At a family wedding, the four Sorenson sisters polka-dot the green lawn in their summer pastels, with varying shades of hair and varying degrees of unease. Their long-infatuated parents watch on with a combination of love and concern. Sixteen...
- Location(s): Mount Everest
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Early 20th century
The untold story of Britain’s most mysterious mountaineering legend – Maurice Wilson – and his heroic attempt to climb Everest alone. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I...
- Location(s): England, Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Funke’s mother dies in a tragic accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Traumatised by grief and against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, conformist Funke strives to fit in, determined...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1952
In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are the diaries...
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