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...

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...

A collection of urban writing anthologies to transport you to the city via fiction

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.

A potpourri of collected fiction, that brings the city to vibrant life – Esther Gilmore –

Another gem from Oxygen books. A collection of writing from different authors, that brings the city to life through fiction.

New York is one of the most exciting and pulsating cities on earth. Here over seventy dazzling writers celebrate the richness and diversity of this amazing metropolis – the latest in this unique series featuring the best-ever writing on...

Venice has to be the world’s most heartstoppingly beautiful and haunting city. For visitors and inhabitants over the centuries it’s always been a place rich in history, romance, mystery and intrigue. For writers, artists, filmmakers and others it has...

Craig Tennant hates his job as an estate agent, loves a girl who has a boyfriend and lives in a London flat he can’t afford with a university friend he wishes he’d never met. That friend is Mark Hunter,...

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father’s will, and...