- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
Schama shows how, in the 17th-century, a modest assortment of farming, fishing and shipping communities, without a shared language, religion or government, transformed themselves into a formidable world empire – the Dutch republic
- Location(s): Italian Riviera
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
A notice in The Times addressed to ‘Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine’ advertises a ‘small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April’. Four very different women take up the offer: Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, both...
- Location(s): Florence, India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th/16th Century
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself ‘Mogor dell’Amore’, the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital....
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Europe, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
‘We are born and we die – but many things could happen in between. Which life do we end up living?’ From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1980s
On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an Algerian city on the edge of the desert, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zakia Zaghouani, the stunning nightclub singer at the Sahara Hotel. Suspicion...
- Location(s): Avignon, Carcassone, Crowland, Narbonne, Rocamadour
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 14th Century
Corruption, sex, racial hatred and the clash of faiths. Welcome to southern France in the 14th century. Join Nicholas, a young monk from the wild and remote Lincolnshire fens, as he takes a roller-coaster road trip through the medieval...
- Location(s): Italy, Naples
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Travel to Hades and Purgatory, roam the ruins like the gluttonous Romans, or watch miracles happen. The Espresso Break takes you into the mythical land that is the oldest city in the Western World — Naples, Italy — and...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this breakout standalone thriller in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, William Landay and Paula Hawkins, a lawyer agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been accused of murder-but begins to suspect that she is the one being...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1937 Spanish Civil War
In the fall of 1937, besieged Madrid lies in near ruins, its people struggling under nightly bombardments. Into this uncertain world, enter three Americans assigned with the task to find and exhume the remains of Robert Jordan – a...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century/21st Century
A spellbinding second instalment in a trilogy of rare power and narrative scope that unlocks the dark heart of Spain, weaving past and present together to portray a country still scarred by civil war, still riven by fear and...
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