Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1818-1820
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
Bella Poldark is the twelfth and final novel in Winston Graham’s sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark. Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the...
Belle de Neige: Tales of Catastrophe, Sex and Squalor from the Alpine Underbelly
- Location(s): Les Trois Vallées (The 3 Valleys)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“People pick the most inopportune times to die; when everything is going along swimmingly and you’re feeling that you really have landed with your arse in the butter recently and isn’t life peachy?” Grief, heartbreak, existential crisis. Life has...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
New South Wales, 1972. Following the death of her beloved Aunt Hilda, widow Clare Barclay inherits Bellevue, an historic property in the Blue Mountains township of Numbulla, Australia. Giving up her teaching job to move to the mountains, Clare...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 978-0857302670
Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn t rattle easily not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist they ve seen her...
- Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Modern day Istanbul, as we follow detectives Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman Armenian as they go about reeling in a killer. Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul’s decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed...
- Location(s): Western Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
A powerful and triumphant novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post colonial Aboriginal history. This writer has the scope...
Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899 – 1903
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 19th and 20th Centuries
American acquisition of the Philippines and Filipino resistance to it became a focal point for debate on American imperialism. In a lively narrative, Miller tells the story of the war and how it challenged America’s sense of innocence.
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): WW2
The human face of Berlin and the inhabitants, well researched and a seering tribute to stoicism, courage and resourcefulness.
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): 20th century
Berliners is a poem that originated from a conversation in Berlin. After several visits to Berlin, and a recent work assignment there with the German Film Academy, John Simmons became fascinated by the role of the city in 20th...
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