- Location(s): London, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1988 & 2016
In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where...
- Location(s): Pyongyang
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating – very quietly – to maintain stability in the...
The Man with the Compound Eyes
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern
On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile’i is one such boy, but as the strongest swimmer and best sailor, he is...
The Man with the Green Fingers
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When we meet somebody for the first time we assume they are the person they say they are. Do we ever – and should we ever – look more closely ? The Man with Green Fingers is set on...
The Mango Orchard: The extraordinary true story of a family lost and found
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction
This is part travelogue, part genealogy, part history. Funny and convincing, this is so much more than the sum of its parts. Mexico is described in detail, the author clearly loves the country and culture and people – the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1921
NEW YORK CITY, 1921 An impossible dream. The war is over, the twenties are roaring, but in the depths of the city that never sleeps, Dorothy Parker is struggling to make her mark in a man’s world. A broken...
- Location(s): Genoa
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Chief Inspector Giacomo Amaldi knows he is dealing with a serial killer, a taxidermist who stalks his victims: amidst a garbage strike, the detective has to find his clues in this unnamed Italian city.
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half the 18th Century
‘You will be unhappily wed. You will be widowed. You will be Queen.’ To fourteen-year-old Rose, eldest daughter of a poor plantation landlord, the fortune teller’s prophecy is both thrilling and laughable. Poorly educated and without a dowry, it...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century span
In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country’s cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and...
- Location(s): Austria, Germany, Majdanek, New York City (NYC), Ravensbrück
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 / 1960s-80s
Based on a true story Hermine Braunsteiner was the first person to be extradited from the Unites States for Nazi war crimes. Hermine was one of a few thousand women to work as a female concentration camp guard. Prisoners...
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