- Location(s): Harrogate
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction? A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
With emotional precision and narrative subtlety, The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society. Against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives,...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1900s
From the early 1900s right up to the 1930s, the Royal Hotel was one of the most popular hotels in Liverpool. Situated in Lime Street, the Royal was run by the Winslade family. It was also their home. The...
- Location(s): Windsor
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 / present
A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But when...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1760s (Enlightenment)
It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor, the court physician Struensee....
The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
- Location(s): India, England
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 19th century, 20th century
Rebel, Princess, Suffragette: this is the incredible true story of the life of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, a forgotten heroine of the early twentieth century. Born in 1876, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last Sikh...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
Old Rosa the bag lady shuffles along the streets of New York, stinking, silent and shunned by man and beast. Time and again her nephew, Michael Marcinkus the grocer, has tried to help – but Rosa remains unknowable, hushed...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): contemporary
Two American women. Two Turkish men. In exotic Istanbul everyone’s on the make. “A duet of stories that flies in the face of anything you’d think a love story could be. These are independent stories, yet, as a pair,...
- Location(s): New Jersey, Princeton
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): early 21st century
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four — a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery....
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Current
Zoya Sahni has a great education, a fulfilling job and a loving family (for the most part). But she is not the perfect Indian girl. She’s overweight, spunky and dark-skinned in a world that prizes the slim, obedient and...
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