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...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
“We quarrel about power, not about love.” Catherine the Great takes centre stage in best selling author Eva Stachniak’s latest novel. Gorgeously written with vivid detail and lyrical prose, EMPRESS OF THE NIGHT is an intimate and revealing portrait...
- Location(s): Falmouth
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Meet Inspector George Bartlett and Constable Archibald Boase in their first investigation together. In the closing months of 1921, Bartlett and Boase have a missing girl on their Falmouth patch. Before long they find themselves drawn into a murder...
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