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Location(s): Spain
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern looking back
A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man’s missing birthday in Diana Rosie’s debut novel, Alberto’s Lost Birthday. Alberto is an old man. But he doesn’t know how old – he remembers nothing...
All Creatures Great and Small: “If Only They Could Talk” and “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet”
Location(s): Yorkshire
Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
Era(s): 1930s
This is the rural landscape of North Yorkshire. The life of a vet in the 1930s, beautifully written and a classic of its time.
Location(s): London
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 18th Century
London, 1756: In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in the back streets of London, to conjuror’s assistant, to celebrated courtesan...
Location(s): Tuscany
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): WW2 onwards
Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in...
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...
Location(s): World
Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
Era(s): Various
A global journey inspired by writers from every continent Whether you’re a regular globe-trotter or an armchair traveller, these 80 works conjure up the spirit of place for locations on every continent. Sometimes the setting of a novel is...
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...