- Location(s): Khios (Chios), Monemvasia, The Peloponnese
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century/Byzantine
This remarkable, sweeping historical novel, rich in story and character, is shaped by the quest for a hidden treasure, rumoured to bequeath riches beyond belief and guarded by successive generations of famed warriors. Fifteenth-century Europe: a time of warring...
- 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...
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