- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Berlin, Zurich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
- 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...
- 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 –...
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