Being Indian: Inside the Real India
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
Varma shows how India’s self-image has been distorted by simplistic myth-making, and sets out to find instead what it really means to be Indian at the beginning of a new century which is likely to see India grow into...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
The passionate love story that led to The Bronze Horseman. They gave up everything to be together, but love was just the beginning … Italian immigrant Gina, independent, compassionate and strong, desperately wants a family. Boston blue-blood Harry, idealistic...
- Location(s): Geneva
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s
Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job, her boyfriend and her flat, she knows she must pick herself up and make a new start. But how will she adjust to small-town living and local reporting? Meanwhile, home-loving Nina...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills. Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
The teen heroine of her second novel is different from the other girls in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Not only are the walls of her bedroom decorated in manly maritime prints, but she suffers from “auditory-gustatory” synesthesia. There are...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1941
Brooklyn. 1941. Two stories before Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into WWII. Private detective, Nero Wolfe, with the aid of his assistant, Archie Goodwin, investigates a killing at a flower show and a series of poison-pen letters that result...
- Location(s): Houston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010, and critically acclaimed in US and UK. The novel is set in 1980’s Houston where Jay (whos is a lawyer) and his wife Bernadine are on a boat on the bayou celebrating her...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Blackheath is a groundbreaking and sharply comic tale of life after children, revealing the awful truth at the heart of modern family life: love is not enough. Amelia has everything: two perfect children, a successful husband who loves her, and...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood, but there is no victim. Only an odd series of numbers is left behind. When a girl is brutally raped in her apartment, Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen...
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