- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The extraordinary true story of intrigue and emerging terror at the American embassy in Berlin during the tumultuous twelve months that witnessed Hitler’s rise to ultimate power in Germany.
- Location(s): Belize
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Boxer Miles Young thinks he’s got one more shot in him before it’s time to hang up the gloves for good. He may be the only one who thinks so. The truth is, he enjoys the recognition his career...
In the Land of Invisible Women
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new...
In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced
- Location(s): Agra, Portsmouth
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s - 1950s
Agra, 1938: Eighteen-year-old Florence Hunt has grown up riding horses past the Taj Mahal and chasing peacocks through her backyard under the critical gaze of her father. Increasingly enamoured with his work on the booming railway, Florence yearns to...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1936
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the mountain foothills of northern Pakistan, near the snow-capped Afghan passes with their “fluid and unmarked” borders, a teenage boy tends his family’s pomegranate orchard. One day, in the market, he falls in love with the daughter of...
- Location(s): Lahore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A life hiding her heartbreak. A message that will change her world. To strangers that pass her on the streets of Lahore, Mona Ahmed lives a life to be envied. Married to wealthy businessman Bilal, with happily married children...
- Location(s): Ontario, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
‘A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.’ In Hackney, gigging filmmaker Nina has...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel...
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