Location(s): Venice
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography
Era(s): 21st Century
The mysterious allure of the ancient floating city of Venice is captured in this book of evocative photography and beguiling words of a diverse group of contemporary Venetophiles. The luminous photographs, in both color and black and white, compliment...
Dream of Venice in Black and White
Location(s): Venice
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography
Era(s): Contemporary
Dream of Venice in Black and White reveals Venice as a narrative in chiaroscuro. Over 50 photographers have documented the city to create a visual legacy of elegant realism in light and shadow. The acclaimed Italian author Tiziano Scarpa...
Location(s): Dublin
Genre(s): Short Stories
Era(s): Early 20th Century
James Joyce’s Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown. Joyce’s first major work, written when...
Location(s): Central Asia, China, North Africa, Russia
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): 1930s/40s
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy...
Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 1940s
Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night – a disgrace...
Location(s): Oslo, Sydney
Genre(s): Fantasy
Era(s): Modern
A MYSTICAL FOREST . . . AN ANCIENT PROPHECY . . . A LOVE THAT SPANS LIFETIMES Free-spirited book-club founder, Rosetta, and polished traditionalist, Matthew, are yet to meet and have little in common, but time-travelling sprites from a...
Location(s): Colorado
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Contemporary
Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of...
Location(s): New York City (NYC)
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Various
‘Beautiful, kaleidoscopic . . . everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on’ Eimear McBride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city...
Location(s): Bristol, Cardiff
Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
Era(s): Modern
Gethin Grey is the man you call when there’s nowhere else to turn. His Last Resort Legals team investigates miscarriages of justice. But Gethin is running out of options himself: his gambling is out of control, his marriage is...
Location(s): Venice
Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
Era(s): Modern
In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli. Now, many years later, Flavia...
