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...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1943
It is 1943 – the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all...
- Location(s): Quito
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Quito, Ecuador. In this obscure Andean capital, ladled along the ledge of a volcano, an eruption is taking place. After centuries of oppression, the workers are on strike against their banana plantation masters. If Ecuador, the largest banana exporter...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
A collection of urban writing anthologies to transport you to the city via fiction
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Giddy Amsterdam, staid Amsterdam. Empress, fishwife, lady of the night. Hero, artist, traitor, beggar. Visionary, Calvinist and clown. It is that timeless humanity of which this city sings.
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
A potpourri of collected fiction, that brings the city to vibrant life – Esther Gilmore –
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Another gem from Oxygen books. A collection of writing from different authors, that brings the city to life through fiction.
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