- 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...
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls’ virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling...
- Location(s): Niagara Falls (NY)
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Early 20th century
The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Slowly recovering from a terrible accident, Natalia is faced with a devastating choice – to return to the cutthroat world of Russian ballet that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever – in this sweeping novel of love...
- Location(s): Islamabad
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 1970s
In this intimate coming-of-age story set in the late 1970s, a young girl struggles to make sense of the chaos around her during Pakistan’s political upheaval, where the military revolts, the embassy burns, and a terrible secret tears her...
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