Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 79AD and Modern
Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought: the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs: and the legendary number of...
- Location(s): Rijeka (formerly Fiume)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1944-1950
Contessa and Ettore Saforo awake to a normal day in war-stricken, occupied Italy. By the end of the day, however, their house is in ruins and they must seek shelter and protection wherever they can. But the turbulent politics...
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), World
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara,his Italian wife are still trying to retire to the English countryside and really go back to art restoration. Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
A haunting evocation of a childhood in late Ottoman/early Republican Turkey and the abrupt collapse of a single family’s fortunes
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
(The Author)…..has evidently spent much of his time walking round and round, up and down, above and under, in and out of the city’s not very beautiful streets…..He needs no cathedrals for his art, no victorious monuments. To him...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
April 1945. Hitler’s Reich is on the verge of extinction, and its enemies are already plotting against each other. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous...
- Location(s): Ghana, London, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move was for the girl’s own good, in her mother’s mind, but for the daughter, the...
- Location(s): Africa, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Following from The Burning Shore..Power of the Sword is a rich and thrilling adventure, a magnificent feat of storytelling that sweeps the reader from the deserts, mountains and cities of Africa to the heartland of Nazi Germany, and from...
- Location(s): Cincinnati
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Former detective Will Borders uses a cane to walk following an operation, is re-united with his pain nurse from hopsital as he investigates copycat murders.
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A group of American expats en route to adventure, inspiration, or perhaps even history-in-the-making in Prague, somehow get sidetracked and settle instead for the enigmatic city of Budapest. Arriving in Hungary’s capital to pursue his elusive brother, journalist John...
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