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The Doll

The Doll
  • Author(s): Boleslaw Prus
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

The Doll is a classic of Polish literature, a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. Yet it is less a novel of ideas than a...

The Goddess of Warsaw

The Goddess of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Lisa Barr
  • Location(s): Warsaw, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 2000s

Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct...

The King of Warsaw

The King of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Szczepan Twardoch
  • Location(s): Poland, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Leading up to WW2

A city ignited by hate. A man in thrall to power. The ferociously original award-winning bestseller by Poland’s literary phenomenon—his first to be translated into English. It’s 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub...

The Seamstress Of Warsaw

The Seamstress Of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Rebecca Mascull
  • Location(s): Poland, London, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Daring, tragic, haunting, and unforgettable – Mascull is a superb writer. – Louisa Treger , author of The Dragon Lady 1940 London A man learns a shocking truth about his past. Warsaw A mother writes a diary as the...

The Walls Came Down

The Walls Came Down
  • Author(s): Ewa Dodd
  • Location(s): Warsaw, Chicago, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A young boy goes missing during a workers’ strike in 1980s Communist Poland, unravelling a chain of events which will touch people across decades and continents. Joanna, a young journalist in Warsaw, is still looking for her brother, who’s...

The Warsaw Orphan

The Warsaw Orphan
  • Author(s): Kelly Rimmer
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews,...

Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law

Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law
  • Author(s): Michelle Granas
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cordelia is a shy and high-minded polio victim who lives a life of seclusion caring for her odd family in Warsaw. Her father is an academic with no life skills, her brother never leaves the villa, and her mother...

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