- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1990s/2000s
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
She can forgive. They can’t forget. After ten years in the Huntsville State Penitentiary, Jasper Curtis returns home to live with his sister and her two daughters. Lizzie does not know who she’s letting into her home: the brother...
- Location(s): Granada
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
It’s two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically...
- Location(s): Connemara, Dublin, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Burnt-out lawyer Ed Burke flees New York, a failed marriage, and a high pressure career as a criminal attorney and returns home to Dublin, Europe’s most happening city. Hand-in-hand with the new prosperity, a culture of ruthless corruption has...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1970s
Madras (Chennai) 1970s. Kamala Kumari, beautiful and proud, is a Gemini Studio starlet who cannot reveal her caste origins because of the stigma attached to the Devadasis, women who have been dedicated to temple gods and often were forced...
- Location(s): France, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
The 3rd Book in the Josephine P Trilogy. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Napoléon and his beloved Joséphine inhabit the Tuileries Palace. During the years they have been married it has been a time of extraordinary turmoil...
- Location(s): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Travancore (until 1947)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of the former princely state of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...
- Location(s): Paris, Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate.’ Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French...
- Location(s): England, Paris, Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Paris can do strange things to a man’s mind… like making him agree to an apparently harmless favour of escorting a picture to Rome. ‘The Death of Socrates’ is a particularly nondescript piece, so art dealer Jonathan Argyll can...
- Location(s): Devon, Lynmouth
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and 1952
In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, passing the time in peace and hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw...
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