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The Other Typist

The Other Typist
  • Author(s): Suzanne Rindell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920s

New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side....

The Perfume Collector

The Perfume Collector
  • Author(s): Kathleen Tessaro
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ELEGANCE and THE DEBUTANTE. One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe’s life upside down: ‘Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs...

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
  • Author(s): Robert A Caro
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and...

The Submission

The Submission
  • Author(s): Amy Waldman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner’s name – and discover he is an American Muslim....

The Total Zone

The Total Zone
  • Author(s): Martina Navratilova, Liz Nickles
  • Location(s): Florida, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

Jordan Myles is an ex tennis pro. She is looking for Audrey Armat one of the best tennis players and her travels take her to Florida, Wimbledon, and Flushing Meadows to find out what has happened to her. When...

The Travelling Tea Shop

The Travelling Tea Shop
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A delectable tale of love, friendship and cake… Laurie loves a challenge. Especially if it involves tea-time and travel. So when British baking treasure Pamela Lambert-Leigh needs a guide on a research trip for her new cookbook, she jumps...

Washington Square

Washington Square
  • Author(s): Henry James
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 1800s

A beautiful book set in old patrician New York, this is the story of a Father and his daughter Catherine – she is courted by Morris Townsend, who is seemingly after her wealth. After her father’s death, he courts...

When We Were Strangers

When We Were Strangers
  • Author(s): Pamela Schoenewaldt
  • Location(s): Abruzzo, Cleveland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s onwards

Irma Vitale is a young woman in Abruzzo, her Mother dead, her father an alcoholic and she takes the opportunity to sail for America. This is the story of emigration to a new land and what awaits her and...

Where Have You Been?

Where Have You Been?
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York’s Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost...

Dancing Backwards

Dancing Backwards
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing...

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