The Ropewalker: Between Three Plagues
- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
Jaan Kross’s trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a...
- Location(s): Catalonia, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Imagine being flown to a new job at a luxury estate belonging to a fabulously rich but obnoxious Englishman, in the Catalonian mountains. This man’s bizarre character is hard to handle, but he is paying you handsomely and you...
- Location(s): Bletchley, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 / 1940s
1940, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla has the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII
High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now – in the aftermath of World War 1 – it is a convalescent home for sick...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A retired judge drops dead at a swish party in Kolkata. The needle of suspicion points to Punjabi mirchi Dolly Luthra. Now it’s up to her friend, the strait-laced Mrinalini Sen, to don the detective’s hat and clear Dolly’s...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Mythological
This moving adaptation of the classic children’s story Cinderella tells how a disfigured Algonquin girl wins the heart of a mysterious being who lives by Lake Ontario near her village. The powerful Invisible Being is looking for a wife,...
- 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...
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