- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s
A tale of two very different sisters whose 1890s voyage from London into remote outback Australia becomes a journey of self-discovery, set against a landscape of wild beauty and savage dispossession. London in 1891: Harriet Cameron is a talented...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
16th century Italy, deep in the Tuscan countryside a long-held feud between two aristocratic families ends in tragedy leaving only one young girl alive. Having barely escaped with her life, she vows to survive at all costs… Years later,...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the...
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st century
We all have something to tell those we have lost . . . When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss,...
- Location(s): France, Flanders, Ypres
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1 onwards
1921 In the aftermath of war, everyone is searching for answers. Edie’s husband Francis never came home and was declared ‘missing, believed killed’. But when she receives a mysterious photograph of him in the post, hope flares and she...
- Location(s): Israel, Palestine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
It is 1920, and Palestine has just fallen into the hands of the British. 11 year old English girl Prudence is sent to Jerusalem to live with her father, a government architect who plans on redesigning the Holy City....
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WWII
The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. ‘You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the...
- Location(s): Damascus
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed by war. Amidst ruin and despair, he begins to play. He plays of love and hope, he...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): late 19th Century
In the award-winning film The Piano, writer/director Jane Campion created a story so original and powerful it fascinated millions of moviegoers. This novel stands independent of the film, exploring the mysteries of Ada’s muteness, the secret of her daughter’s...
- 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...
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