The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Humour, Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Syrian lingerie is racy attire little-known in the west. Manufactured in Syria and exported throughout the Middle East, it blinks, sings, vibrates, and flashes lights, and is adorned with everything from faux fir to artificial flowers and feathered birds...
The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
You’ve heard of the men who kill, but what about the women who loved them? It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. From the outside, Beverley, Elsie and Margot lead...
- Location(s): Venice, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1943 /2017
Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...
- Location(s): Navsari, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century/present
Navsari, India. Penniless and trapped in a loveless marriage, Nirmala spends her days anxiously caring for her sick young son, Varun. Looming over Nirmala’s impoverished home is an imposing mansion built by her grandfather, and from its balcony her...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A stunning debut from a new Australian writer – the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop. At eighteen, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little more than her love of books and...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Into the beating heart of Bombay, a city that spins cotton into gold, a young man, Tatya, arrives to make a living. Ambitious and hard-working, he begins to make a name for himself in the city’s famed textile market....
The Secret of Nightingale Wood
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1919
1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees – or thinks she sees – in the shadows of their new home,...
- Location(s): Prague, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon–a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that...
The Secret of Supernatural Creek (A Laura Marlin Mystery)
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin is back for her next exciting adventure in the fifth mystery from award-winning author Lauren St John. After helping to capture Mr A, the notorious leader of the Straight A gang, Laura Marlin is...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): WW2
A classic story about a magical miniature family’s adventures in wartime Japan In a dusty library, in the quietest corner of a house in a Tokyo suburb, live the Little People: Fern and Balbo, Robin and Iris. Just a...
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