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The Girl in Green

The Girl in Green
  • Author(s): Derek B Miller
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Girl in Green takes us deep into modern Iraq, where British journalist Thomas Benton and relief worker Marta Strom are persuaded by ex-US soldier Arwood Hobbes to embark on what may be a fools’ errand in a last-chance effort...

The Last Runaway

The Last Runaway
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): Oberlin, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

When modest Quaker Honor Bright sails from Bristol with her sister, she is fleeing heartache for a new life in America, far from home. But tragedy leaves her alone and vulnerable, torn between two worlds and dependent on the...

The Lemon Grove

The Lemon Grove
  • Author(s): Helen Walsh
  • Location(s): Deya (Deià)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One hot summer. One week in a villa on the outskirts of Deia, a village nestling in the rugged, mountainous west coast of the island of Mallorca. One family for whom the carefully laid jigsaw of life is about...

The Leopard

The Leopard
  • Author(s): Giuseppe di Lampedusa
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860

In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: “Some huge irrational disaster is in the making.” All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses...

The Lying-Down Room

The Lying-Down Room
  • Author(s): Anna Jaquiery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris; in the stifling August heat, Commandant Serge Morel is called to a disturbing crime scene. An elderly woman has been murdered to the soundtrack of Faure’s Requiem, her body then grotesquely displayed. At first this strange case seems...

The Tiger’s Wife

The Tiger’s Wife
  • Author(s): Tea Obreht
  • Location(s): Balkans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

The book is based in the Balkans just after the recent conflicts, the main characters are Natalie and her recently deceased grandfather whose fairytales form a major part of the book.

These Dividing Walls

These Dividing Walls
  • Author(s): Fran Cooper
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building. Within its walls, people talk and kiss, laugh and cry; some are glad to sit alone, while others wish they did not. A woman with silver-blonde hair opens her bookshop...

Tita

Tita
  • Author(s): Marie Houzelle
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Tita is a little girl of seven years, and she feels very different to other girls. She has perfect parents. She puts on plays with her friends, spies on adults, challenges her teacher, and even manages to read forbidden...

Urban Venus

Urban Venus
  • Author(s): Sara Downing
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern and Renaissance

Contemporary and historical fiction meet in this love story set in present-day and Renaissance Italy. Broken-hearted art student, Lydia Irvine, spends her days wandering the atmospheric streets of Florence, soaking up the culture in its galleries and museums. She...

Winter in Berlin

Winter in Berlin
  • Author(s): Ian R Mitchell
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982

Set in the East Germany of 1982, Winter in Berlin tells the story of a mysterious Scottish historian who has come to East Berlin to make a study of the historiographical treatment of Bismarck by East German scholars. But...

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