- Location(s): Florence
- Era(s): 1930s
A tale of love, heroism and resistance set against the stunning backdrop of 1930s Florence, In Love and War weaves fact and fiction to create a thrilling portrait of a man swept up in the chaos of war. Desperate...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1750s
Through courtesan Lucia we hear tell of her life. She describes her peasant frivolities, her loving parents, how she comes to be educated, what friendships and employers augment her growth, and we mature with her.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to 1504
16th Century/Modern Venice: Grappling her own demons and the after-effects of a disaster, Fern battles to keep hold of her sanity as she’s snatched back in time and lives the life of Cecilia, a young woman at the court...
In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 19th and 20th Centuries
Corazon Aquino’s dramatic emergence in the Philippines in 1986 captured the imagination of the world and focused attention on what was for decades America’s only major colonial possession. This book portrays America’s 19th- and 20th-century empire builders and examines...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young man enters the culverted remains of an ancient Glasgow stream, looking for thrills. Deep below the city, it is decaying and claustrophobic and gets more so with every step. As the ceiling lowers to no more than...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Death in paradise: sea, sex and a sinister downward spiral on a Caribbean coast The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life on a remote...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother...
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies #6
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of ‘traditional build’, is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman...
- Location(s): West Africa
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2013-2016
Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity’s place in the world. Two boys venture from their village to...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920/30s
In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in a devastating scandal of 1930s’ Germany. It tells the story of Emmeline, a wayward, young art student; Julius, an anxious, middle-aged art expert;...
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