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The Piano Man’s Daughter

The Piano Man’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Timothy Findley
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother’s own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man’s Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie’s mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued...

The Piano Player of Budapest

The Piano Player of Budapest
  • Author(s): Roxanne de Bastion
  • Location(s): Austria, Budapest, Hungary
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

All future, freedom and success lay ahead of young pianist Stephen de Bastion in 1930s Hungary. Life whirled headily around cocktails, romance, applause and the buzz of Budapest late into the night. Then, 1939. Stephen’s world disintegrates and this...

The Piano Raft

The Piano Raft
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Yorkshire, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Piano Raft is an unforgettable, heart-warming story about love, a piano and a hand-built raft that will have you enthralled, laughing and sitting on the edge of your seat as you sail (precariously) upon the rivers and canals...

The Pickup

The Pickup
  • Author(s): Nadine Gordimer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman’s daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie Summers’ car...

The Picture House Murders

The Picture House Murders
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Murder is no occupation for a lady… or is it? 1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her time. Rather than attending Oxford to bag an eligible Duke (as her mother, Lady Vale, so desperately hoped), she...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Author(s): Oscar Wilde
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!’ Wilde’s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray...

The Pieces from Berlin

The Pieces from Berlin
  • Author(s): Michael Pye
  • Location(s): Berlin, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The 25th anniversary edition of The Pilgrimage, the precursor to The Alchemist. In this gripping story, Paulo Coelho is on a quest for the ultimate in self-knowledge, wisdom and spiritual mastery. Guided by his mysterious companion Petrus, he takes...

The Pillar of Salt

The Pillar of Salt
  • Author(s): Albert Memmi
  • Location(s): Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Originally published in 1953 (in English in 1955), The Pillar of Salt the semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia. To gain access to privileged French society, he must reject his many identities –...

The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth
  • Author(s): Ken Follett
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

The Kingsbridge Novels Book 1 A Mason with a Dream It is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can...

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