Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s
The East End in the 1950s, worth describes the hardships and life of a midwife, the real life situations and captures that era to perfection.
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Gunder Jomann thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his bride arrives in Norway she vanishes. Then the town is shocked by the news...
- Location(s): Athens, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Florence, London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of Girl, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of Cambridge, would rather be home than...
- Location(s): France, Paris
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Heartbroken after her almost-engagement was called off, Jess goes on a mini-break to Paris seeking closure and meets a hot French stranger called Gabriel. As sparks fly, Jess, fearing she was dumped because she was boring, vows to be...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2009 onwards
Last week, I was sitting in seven layers (two of them thermal) next to a fire, with a blanket wrapped around me. Now, I am sleeping in knickers and a vest under a fan. Let the mosquitoes bite me....
- Location(s): Canada, Great Falls, Winnipeg
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s to modern
Canada is divided into three untitled parts. The first, concerning the crime and its immediate fallout, is set in the mid-to-late 1950s in Great Falls, the Montana town that Ford has used as a backdrop in some previous stories....
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Stella, working as a secretary in Paris, feels that her life is going nowhere. After the bitter break-up of a relationship, she has only a canary for company, and relations are strained with her parents and brother back in...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
An anthology of short stories under the editorship of David L Ulin. Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin has been holidaying in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, every summer since he was a boy. He knows the terrain inside...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Capital is set in London during the credit crunch. It is a large tome that follows the lives of a group of people who live in – or are connected to Pepys Road, in South London. It is a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
Beautiful Alyshia D’Cruz has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night she takes the wrong cab home. Charles Boxer, expert in high-stakes kidnap resolution, teams up with his ex-partner, investigative cop Mercy Danquah, who’s...
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