- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Egyptian
Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh’s pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile’s marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian
The daughter of the house is often overlooked … Evelyn Pendragon is spirited but lonely, and largely ignored by her parents whose attentions are taken up with her brother, Nicholas: the expected heir to the family’s Cornish estate and...
- Location(s): Leipzig
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Please see details of this book under “People Like Us” – the two are the same book
- Location(s): France, The Hebrides
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1939
It is 1939 and the eve of the Second World War when the handsome sailor Ewan Mackinnon returns to his childhood home on the remote Hebridean island of Phetray. He was forced to run from the ignominy of a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1500s
In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be...
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2009 nominee On the 2009 USBBY list of Outstanding International Books White Pine nominee, 2009 On Resource Link’s Best of 2008 List On the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Best-of-the-Year list for 2009 Canadian...
- Location(s): Tunisia
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Love, death, culture clash, escape 1994: Jane has no idea of the horrors in store when she plunges into a new life in North Africa with her recently discovered sister, Crystal. When she falls in love with Ali, she...
- Location(s): Amorgos, Germany, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lucy Fricke‘s Daughters tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1918, Russian Revolution
From debut author Carolyn Tara O’Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution. Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war–the poor are devouring...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century/WW2
Isabel, born into the British Raj, and Asha, a young Hindu girl, both consider India their home. Mischance will bring them together and drive them from the bustle of Delhi to the shores of the Andaman Islands, from glittering...
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