- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
The Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid is in ruins, the Germans continue their sweep through Europe, and Franco refuses to enter the Second World War. Unassuming spy, Harry Brett, is sent over to Spain and rekindles his friendship...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving...
- Location(s): St Malo, Brittany, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War...
- Location(s): India, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th century
Two stories interweave. The story of an elephant in Southern India and turn of the 21st London where a romance between a Londoner and a New Yorker is burgeoning. It is deft the way these two stories intertwine. The...
- Location(s): Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Overworked computer programmer Zelda Richardson is teetering on the edge of burnout. Inspired by a girlfriend’s trip around the world, she leaves her life in Seattle, Washington, buys a backpack and flies to Kathmandu as a volunteer English teacher...
- Location(s): Greece, Long Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950's to 1990's
In the year 1956, Anastacia Fotopoulos finds herself pregnant and betrayed, fleeing from a bad marriage. With the love and support of her dear friends Stavros and Soula Papadakis, Ana is able to face the challenges of single motherhood....
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns...
- Location(s): Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1990s -2000s
That’s what the Russians call them – the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden...
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