- 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...
Elizabeth and her German Garden
- Location(s): Nassenheide (Rzedziny)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s
May 7th — There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th entury
Eloise lives with her nanny at The Plaza Hotel in New York. The daughter of extremely rich parents, she is left daily to her own devices. She knows everything about The Plaza and everyone in it. Henry James would...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
Hello Room Service, this is me Eloise. We’re going to Paris. France goodbye! And so, our favourite enfant terrible (sporting her foreign identification travel tag) says au revoir to the Plaza and embarks with Nanny and Weenie on a...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Children, Crime
- Era(s): Weimar
Emil Tischbein is the serious young hero of Erich Kästner’s children’s classic. His adventures on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin are the perfect introduction to the world of fictional crime detection. (The Independent)
- Location(s): Surrey
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Medieval
An ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his wife to his older brother. A mysterious woman seeks five fathers for her children. A powerful priest...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last Mrs Whiting...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire...
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