- Location(s): Salinas Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century onwards
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve...
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Short Stories
Prepare to discover a fascinating country: a land buffeted for centuries by power-struggles and revolts, lorded over by Turks, carved up by its neighbours, and subsumed into the Soviet Union. Yet also a land of proud and resilient people,...
- Location(s): Lviv, Vienna
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take...
- Location(s): Bali, India, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Liz’s memoir who- after her marriage breakdown – takes off for a year and goes to mull over her life in three destinations: Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). Italy is about the pleasure of eating, India is about finding...
- 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...
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