- 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...
The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes – A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime
- Era(s): 1890s
The real-life inspiration for Holmes & Watson and a sensational murder mystery that rocked Victorian Britain. First published as The Ardlamont Mystery in 2018, to great reviews, The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery is...
The Mended Circle traces several generations born of Philo Marie Sonnier, a deranged and brutal Confederate soldier, and an unknown black woman. “Moonlight and The Farmer” -“Josephine Carried By Her Lord” -“Biddie Meets Miss Alice Paul” are just a...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
The Mended Circle traces several generations born of Philo Marie Sonnier, a deranged and brutal Confederate soldier, and an unknown black woman. “Moonlight and The Farmer” -“Josephine Carried By Her Lord” -“Biddie Meets Miss Alice Paul” are just a...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing—and always dangerous—USSR in the mid-1980s. Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There’s something rotten in the state of Indiana. When con man Henry Page takes it upon himself to investigate the death of an elderly patient at a care facility, he does so in true Shakespearean tradition: dressed as a...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): 14th-century
Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo’s study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages. In 1870 the whole astonishing cache, containing some 150,000...
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