- Location(s): Famagusta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
If everyone is lying, who can you trust? The Halfway Inn is closed to customers, side-lined by a bypass and hidden deep in inhospitable countryside. One winter’s night, two women end up knocking on the door, seeking refuge as...
111 Kölner Orte, die man gesehen haben muss
- Location(s): Cologne (Köln)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2008
Dieser Kölnführer ist weit entfernt von allen Köln gleich Dom gleich FC-Klischee-Führern. Witzig, frisch und mit viel Esprit lässt sich dieses Buch wiederholt in die Hand nehmen, um sich ganz neue Köln-Anregungen zu holen oder die Stadt zum ersten...
111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
IN GERMAN ONLY. Kein Mensch kennt alle Geheimnisse dieser gigantischen Stadt. Neue Entdeckungen verraet ein Buch, das ein Trio junger Frauen unter Regie von Journalistin Lucia Jay von Seldeneck geschrieben hat. Es zeigt den Weg zu 111 unbekannten, skurrilen...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
How a crazy queen, a frightened prince and a corrupt court tricked Napoleon and changed the history of Portugal and Brazil. A book set in Brazil. The story of Portuguese King Dom João who fled Portugal as Napoleon was...
- Location(s): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
1822, How a wise man, a sad princess and a money crazy Scotsman helped D. Pedro create Brazil, a country that had everything to go wrong. A book set in Brazil. This is a non-fiction historical book written by...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Novel set in New York.This is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the tacky panoply of power. Into the rarefied atmosphere of a world where money has begun to talk...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
Fiction set in Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Post’s young but disillusioned crime correspondent, Edward Dunford, is assigned to the story, while juggling the recent death of his father and the return to his native Yorkshire after a brief, unsuccessful stint...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s
Fiction set in Yorkshire. This brings the Red Riding Quartet to its brilliant conclusion. Tense and full of drama it is hard to put down.
- Location(s): Ipswich
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1946
Novel set in Ipswich in 1946, Hodgkinson’s debut work movingly depicts how people try to return to normal life after a dreadful expereince. Janusz, a Polish soldier who spent the war apart from his wife and child, has set...
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