- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern and Various
New York is not a city for growing and manufacturing food. It’s a money and real estate city, with less naked earth and industry than high-rise glass and concrete. Yet in this intimate, visceral, and beautifully written book, Robin...
- Location(s): Öland (Oland)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
This is an atmospheric read which makes great use of the location of this out-of-season holiday island where Jens, a small boy has disappeared without trace twenty years ago. Suddenly a small shoe turns up in the post…..
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s and 2000s
A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award-winning historian. 1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful...
- Location(s): Europe, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
To betray, you must first belong… In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th century history. Then she was...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Since it opened in May 1889, the Eiffel Tower has become an iconic image of modern times – as much a beacon of technological progress as an enduring symbol of Paris and French culture. But as engineer Gustave Eiffel...
- Location(s): Bogota, Colombia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Karin Roth goes to Bogotá as an exchange student she quickly falls in love with the country and its people. Lively, attractive, and opinionated, she soon has a wide circle of Colombian friends, and is studying and partying...
- Location(s): Hisarlik (Troy)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1600 BC
An exciting and equally lyrical new retelling from Jennifer Saint, the Sunday Times bestselling author of ARIADNE ‘Saint’s immersive novel thrusts the reader straight into the heart of Greek mythology’ ipaper on Ariadne The House of Atreus is cursed....
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century onwards
A son’s quest to avenge his mother’s murder. In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in Manhattan. Each presses the button for their floor, but the elevator climbs, non-stop, to the top where it pauses for a few seconds, before dropping. Right to...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
Since she was found as a baby, floating in the Thames one foggy night, the web-toed Pearl has been brought up in a brothel known as the House of Mermaids. Cosseted and pampered there, it is only when her...
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