- Location(s): England, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 16th Century
The year is 1586. Tom Goodluck, lawyer’s clerk and aspiring playwright, is forced to leave his home in Salisbury when an enemy threatens to expose his affair with the wife of a wealthy merchant. At first his future in...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
With her bestseller, Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep, Siba Shakib drew attention to the distressing situation of Afghan women. Taking up this theme again, she now tells a wonderful story of love and courage, and of a...
- Location(s): Northern Spain, Santiago de Compostela
The Camino de Santiago – the stories behind why people decide to walk this special and unique path, inspired by The Canterbury Tales
- Location(s): Santorini
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Brigit Palmer is thrilled to be on the Greek Island of Santorini. She’s here for her wedding to Hollywood heart-throb Blake Crawford, one of America’s most eligible bachelors. Brigit’s parents have rented a villa, and soon guests will arrive...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1800s
The last instalment of Kate Grenville’s trilogy of colonial Australia (The Secret River and The Lieutenant) is both a standalone story and an end to the unfinished saga of the Thornhill family. It offers two discrete reading experiences: those...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s, Modern
Two stories intertwine: the first, that of Sarah, a 10 yr old girl who experiences the horrific round up of Jews in 1942 in Paris: the second, Julia Jarmond researches the history of Sarah and her family.
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A sensational and utterly engaging novel—Breakfast at Tiffany’s set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a...
- Location(s): Salisbury
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various
Sarum is the roman name for current day Salisbury. In a novel of extraordinary richness the whole sweep of British civilisation unfolds through the story of one place, Salisbury, from beyond recorded time to the present day. The landscape...
- Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen...
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