An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
- Location(s): Queensland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where...
An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Current
Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of Filipino family-based oligarchies both derives from and contributes to a weak, corrupt state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Philippine leaders have fused...
- Location(s): Florence, Lancashire, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Food and Drink, Mystery
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something, something you should not have...
- Location(s): Paris, Pondicherry (Puducherry), The Indian Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Historical
- Era(s): 2010 (and 1760)
Part swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in the heart of Paris, An Astronomer in Love is an enchanting tale of adventure, destiny, and the power of love from bestselling author Antoine Laurain....
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour brings unexpected riches;...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
When Charles shows his friends the rowing boat he has spent the last six months building, he little realises the adventures that lie ahead. Several glasses of champagne later (it is New Year’s Eve), he finds himself betting he...
- Location(s): London, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
When The Maggiore, an English Quartet undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven’s, violinist Michael Holme is taken back to memories of playing this piece in Vienna as a student. At the same time he falls in love with Julia...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1660s
The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all...
- Location(s): Canton, Hong Kong, Macau (Macao)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 1800s
A hardback best-seller and nominee for the Booker Prize, finally back in print after three years of rights battles, this literary masterpiece documents the first Anglo-Chinese Opium War through the eyes of two young Americans on the China Coast...
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