- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s moving forward
A compelling story of war, secrets, family and history that will draw you into the heart of Paris and its troubled past. Paris, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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