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A Whole Life

A Whole Life
  • Author(s): Robert Seethaler
  • Location(s): Austrian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First 3/4 20th Century

Long listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 ‘Heart-rending and heart-warming . . . for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.’ Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a...

A Winter’s Tale

A Winter’s Tale
  • Author(s): Mark Helprin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between...

A Wolf in Hindelheim

A Wolf in Hindelheim
  • Author(s): Jenny Mayhew
  • Location(s): South West Germany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1926

South-West Germany, 1926. The disappearance of a baby girl calls for Constable Theodore Hildebrandt and his son Klaus to visit the remote village of Hindelheim, a place where nothing ever happens. But the news of the missing baby has...

A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin
  • Author(s): Anonymous
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding,...

A Woman of Angkor

A Woman of Angkor
  • Author(s): John Burgess
  • Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap), Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds.” The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray,...

A Woman of Courage

A Woman of Courage
  • Author(s): Rita Bradshaw
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...

A Woman’s choice

A Woman’s choice
  • Author(s): Annie Thomas
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre WW1

It is 1901. Queen Victoria is dead; a new era has begun. And on a cold April morning a young girl stands uncertainly on Liverpool Docks ready to board an emigrant ship that will take her to America and...

A World Between Us

A World Between Us
  • Author(s): Lydia Syson
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1936

Spain, 1936. Felix, a spirited young nurse, has travelled to Spain to help the cause of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. But she is also following Nat, a passionate young man who has joined the International Brigades...

A World of Trouble

A World of Trouble
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack Shepherd is sick of Washington politics, sick of corporate law, and even a little sick of himself. So he hits the road looking for a new start, makes a couple of wrong turns, and winds up in Hong...

A Year at Hotel Gondola

A Year at Hotel Gondola
  • Author(s): Nicky Pellegrino
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She’s an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet – a...

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