- Location(s): Munich, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street in Molching, a fictional village just outside non-ficitonal Munich, during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during...
- Location(s): West Sussex
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s
Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, day dreamer and amateur detective as she tackles her first case! Sussex, 1955: When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she’s in for the surprise of her life! Because there,...
- Location(s): Borrowdale
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Lake District Mysteries: 13 As the auction at High Gates House in Borrowdale nears, Christopher Henderson bumps into Jennifer Reade, the expected recipient of the proceeds of the house clearance sale. She discovers a dead man in the...
- Location(s): Florence, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
In the colourful world of fifteenth-century Italy, Luciana Vetra is young and beautiful, a part-time model and full-time whore. When she is asked to pose as the goddess Flora for Sandro Botticelli’s painting La Primavera, she is willing to...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1920s, 1930s
The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Clean easy prose, and well observed characters along the waterfront of the Hudson River
- Location(s): Zagoria
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young man determined to protect his girl… A teenage boy offering prophecies… and a series of unexplained events. Lefteris and his darling girl, Evgenia, live a quiet and happy life together in a mountain village in Zagori, Greece....
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The Breadmaker’s Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair’s Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, as...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s and Modern
Julian Tremayne is a missionary priest in a remote Philippine village during the Marcos dictatorship. After championing the Communist rebels, he finds himself imprisoned for the murder of a local military commander. Three decades later, following his own mysterious...
- Location(s): Visegrad
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1500s onwards
Not quite a novel, more a series of stories following the ‘life’ of a Bosnian bridge overseveral hundred years. This book beautifully describes the history of a small Bosnian town through the eyes of the ethnic Serbs…
The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a Russian-Jewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and friendships, and the catastrophe of wartime invasion. Amidst the snowy peaks of the Ararat...
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