- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1960s
It is the Summer of Love, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. it’s further outside the law than Easy has ever travelled, but his daughter needs medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can borrow...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 700s BC
Chosen as must-read book of 2018 by the Guardian, i, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express and Stylist In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither...
- Location(s): New Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
On a Texan ranch, soon after the second world war, a group of solitary, inarticulately lonely men gathers to work animals as the sun sets for good on the mythic American West. All of these men nurse losses both...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): 2053
Set in 2053 in Sligo/Galway/Limerick. The binding story here is about love. Two men, one woman, a shared place. Bohane itself is separated by class, tribe, vision. One of the men is Logan Hartnett, who runs the Fancy, the...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
After a whirlwind courtship and marriage to dashing Frenchman Emile Daubigny, Anna, the teenage daughter of a Russian furrier, moves to Paris with her new husband, looking forward to a life of gaiety, love and comfortable affluence. The year...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Medieval period onwards
Medieval travelers were overwhelmed by Venice’s affluence – the sacks of spices! the bales of brocades! – and driven to distraction by its seeming paradoxes. The city was surrounded by sand and mud, yet its markets dazzled with variety....
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Retrospective 1940s/50s/60s
It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
London. Girls are disappearing. They’ve all got one thing in common; they just don’t know it yet \. Sixteen-year-old Lily was meant to be next, but she’s saved by a stranger: a half-human boy with gold-flecked eyes. Regan is...
- Location(s): County Mayo, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
An uplifting, inspiring and heart-warming story of a woman truly ahead of her time. Of loves lost and found, of courage and determination. It is the 1930s and when her beloved husband, John, suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
No.5 in the Makana crime mystery series More trouble on the streets of Cairo in a gripping new investigation for ‘one of crime fiction’s most interesting and sympathetic detectives’ (The Times) A severed head washes up on the banks...
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