- Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
1966: In London, Jackie Collins‘s racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops and launches her career. In New York, Jacqueline Susann‘s debut novel Valley of the Dolls is published, and she’s desperate for it to be...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Noir, In Translation, Thriller
- Era(s): 1999 and 2023
Twenty-three years ago, a young woman was murdered on the Swedish island of Lidingö. The island has kept its silence. Until now… As autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in...
- Location(s): Bangladesh, Dhaka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
One family’s life, and a nation – Bangladesh – are uniquely created through conversation, sacrifice, songs, bonds, blood, bravery and jokes. Narrated by a young boy born into a savage civil war, ‘Scenes from Early Life’ is a heartbreaking,...
- Location(s): Tel Aviv
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Stories cum fiction, this is difficult to define from Israel’s master storyteller….It gives us an unsettling portrait of daily life in Oz’s fictional small Israeli village of Tel Ilan, in the vicinity of Tel Aviv. “”Tel Ilan, a pioneer...
- Location(s): Provence, Paris, The Latin Quarter (5/6 ème)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1992
When Clementine and Edouard’s last child leaves home, the cracks in their marriage become impossible to ignore. Her work as a perfumer is no longer providing solace and her sense of self is withering. Then, her former lover resurfaces,...
- Location(s): Grasse, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Paris-born Danielle Bretancourt von Hoffman is a modern young woman with a natural gift. In the language of perfumery, she is a Nose, with the rare ability to recognize thousands of essences by memory. The year is 1939, and...
Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Though born and educated in England, Justine Hardy spends more time thinking of India than of her home. “When I cannot sleep in London I have waking dreams peopled by the characters who inhabit my life in Delhi, and...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Introducing feisty Detective Constable Iona Khan – the first in a thrilling new crime series. In sun-soaked Mauritius, a retired Law Lord is brutally murdered, while in rain-sodden Manchester, the Labour Party conference is beginning. Promoted to Greater Manchester...
- Location(s): North India
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1980s and 1880s
Harry King, artist and antiques dealer, thinks he has just made the worst purchase of his life – an enormous Victorian chest of drawers filled with ancient newspapers and bric-a-brac that now takes up half his shop. But when...
- Location(s): China, India, The Indian Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early and mid 19th Century
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies...
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