- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1833
Benjamin January, an African American musician tries to help a woman who has gone into a ball to confront her late husband’s mistress. When the mistress is found murdered, he is scapegoated for the murder and must work to...
A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Thelma and Louise Meets Goodfellas… After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes an unwanted move on her, she retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): BC
This is 11 in Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the later Roman Republic (BC), featuring Gordianus the Finder. High calibre writing, and wonderfully illuminating descriptions of the ancient world.
- Location(s): Bangladesh, Dhaka, Malaysia (Malaya), Virginia, Washington DC
- Era(s): Modern
A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of...
A Hundred Million Years and a Day
- Location(s): The Dolomites
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, in the summer of 1954, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature – a veritable dragon – lies deep in an...
- Location(s): Connecticut
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the small city of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A husband betrays his wife. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s been years since Anna has seen Leo Knight. And of all the apartments in all the cities in all the world, he just happens to walk in to her cosy new attic home – as her new housemate....
- Location(s): Cameroon
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 2014
On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when,...
- Location(s): Seville
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1980s
A Meeting in Seville follows a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. They return to Seville on Semana Santa (Easter) for a `second honeymoon’, a gift from their daughter, only to encounter their own younger selves, on their...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1930s
Heralded as the Turkish Ulysses (Wordsworth Classics, 2010), A Mind at Peace is a lyrical tribute to the beautiful city of Istanbul, set at the eve of WWII. Tanpinar memorably captures the anxieties of a cosmopolitan Istanbul family during...
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