- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/1930s
On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1808-1809
Based on real events, The Muse Of Fire takes readers behind the scenes of London’s massive Covent Garden Theater at the dawn of the 19th Century. The intrigue, romance and betrayal swirling around the actors offstage rivals anything they...
The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
- Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): late 17th century
IN THE MYSTERIOUS CÉVENNES MOUNTAINS OF LANGUEDOC, FRANCE, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerous legacy of...
- Location(s): Paris, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1986/current day
Laure, a half English, half French woman, sets up a museum in Paris, the Museum of Broken Promises. People come with objects to donate, which represent promises broken by themselves or others. Every day she listens to people recount...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From the author of the Orange Prize long-listed, The Pink Hotel Cathy is a young woman who escapes her feral childhood in a rundown chalet on the East coast of England to become a curator of natural history in...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
ONE WILD PARTY. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER. A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wild enough to herald the end of days. The next day there isn’t a living soul to be seen. But...
The Music and Life of Beethoven
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 19th Century
The life of Beethoven and the creation of his works, amidst his a turbulent personal situation and against a background of political and social upheaval. Highly accessible as a read and real insight into the life and times of...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2015
What does music mean? Can it be more than the sum of its notes and melodies? Can it truly change you? Rob, a musician turned reluctant music critic, poses these questions as everything important in his life appears to...
- Location(s): Algiers
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
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