- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Celtic Times
Northern Britain, Iron Age. Rian, a carefree young woman and promising apprentice healer, is enslaved by a spiteful trader and forced aboard a vessel to embark on a perilous sea voyage. They are in search of the fabled hunter...
The Wanderer – A Tear and A Smile: Reflections of an Immigrant
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Each person is a constant project: changing and adapting—sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. All our lives we wander to find a better place to live or a better job, to learn new skills, to make a...
- Location(s): Devon, Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Pre-WW1
The beautiful, questing second novel in Tim Pears’ acclaimed West Country trilogy 1912. Leo is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood, he travels through Devon, grazing on berries and sleeping in...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1938
Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
“The last task of love is to protect remembrance.” Venice 1938. Fausto’s ambition is to be a film star. Meanwhile he works for the fascist secret police. Elisabetta is being taught how to paint using the techniques of the...
- Location(s): Rouen, St Louis
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1917-1918 WW1
Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson must recruit sixty-four nurses to relieve the battle-worn British, months before American troops are ready to be deployed. She knows that the young nurses serving near the front lines will face a challenging situation,...
- Location(s): Ypres
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
1914 – Two young nurses pledge to help the war effort: Mairi, a wholesome idealist hoping to leave behind her past and Elsie, a glamorous single mother with a weakness for handsome soldiers. Despite their differences, the pair become...
The War of the End of the World
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th century
The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet,...
- Location(s): London, Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Two cities. Two spies. Which woman survives? Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. July, 1940 Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in...
- Location(s): Wales, Aberystwyth, Cheltenham, Cirencester
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): post-WWII
The echoes of war live long in the mind… Wales, 1947 Injured and terrified after an attempted abduction, desperation drives artist Kate Ward to the idyllic scene of her ex-husband’s recent suicide. Labelled a hysterical, grieving divorcée, no one...
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