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Location(s): Paris
Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
Era(s): 1890s
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY. The winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014, this is a gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris – Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland and The Ghost. Paris, 1895: an army officer,...
Location(s): India
Genre(s): Short Stories
Era(s): Post 1947
In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent,...
Location(s): Paris
Genre(s): Nonfiction
Era(s): WW2
In June 1940, Paris fell to the Nazis who made the world’s cultural capital their favourite entertainment ground. Music halls and cabarets thrived during the occupation, providing plenty of work for actors, singers and musicians – except for Jews....
Location(s): Cape Town
Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
Era(s): Modern
Col Vaughn de Vries Book 4 From the author of the acclaimed The First Rule of Survival, praised by Lee Child as ‘excellent and uncompromising’, comes Paul Mendelson’s explosive latest thriller. Apostle Lodge looks out over the ocean, an...
Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age
Location(s): Netherlands
Genre(s): Historical
Era(s): Seventeenth Century
During the seventeenth century, the Netherlands-a small country with just two million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources-enjoyed a “Golden Age” of economic success, world power, and tremendous artistic output. In this book Michael North examines the Dutch Golden...
Art Therapy: Japan: 100 Designs Colouring in and Relaxation
Location(s): Japan
Genre(s): Miscellaneous
Rediscover your creativity and let your imagination and senses unwind with these 100 exquisitely drawn illustrations. The culture, art and natural beauty of Japan inspired the likes of Van Gogh and Monet to create some of their best pieces...
Location(s): Marrakech
Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
Era(s): Early 1900s
Morocco, 1906. The country is caught between growing European influence and domestic instability. As young women disappear from the alleyways of Marrakesh, Farook Al-Alami, a detective from Tangier, is summoned to solve the case of the apparent abductions. Investigating...
Location(s): Key West
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 1993 and 1919
1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race...
Location(s): Beirut
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Late 20th Century
The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. There is Lilian with her two children, desperate to emigrate, with...
Location(s): Hydra
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Contemporary
On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a...