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The Muse of Fire

The Muse of Fire
  • Author(s): Carol M Cram
  • 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

The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • 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...

The Museum of Broken Promises

The Museum of Broken Promises
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • 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...

The Museum of Cathy

The Museum of Cathy
  • Author(s): Anna Stothard
  • 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...

The Museum of Desire

The Museum of Desire
  • Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman
  • 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

The Music and Life of Beethoven
  • Author(s): Lewis Lockwood
  • 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...

The Music Book

The Music Book
  • Author(s): Dave O'Leary
  • 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...

The Mysteries of Algiers

The Mysteries of Algiers
  • Author(s): Robert Irwin
  • Location(s): Algiers
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One winter evening bestselling crime author, Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it’s leaked to the press. As he interviews...

The Mysterious Disappearance of Marsha Boden

The Mysterious Disappearance of Marsha Boden
  • Author(s): Rosy Gee
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

‘This cosy crime novel is set in a sleepy village in Shropshire where nothing much happens except the day when Marsha Boden disappears. When a GP commits suicide after he discovers his wife is having an affair with another...

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