- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Experience the haunting and exciting city of Berlin as never before, in the company of over sixty dazzling writers. Join them as Christopher Isherwood takes us to the cabaret David Bowie cycles through Berlin Anna Funder remembers Stasiland Ian...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
This series celebrates every aspect of Russia’s most legendary city – essential reading for travellers and lovers of wonderful writing about Russia. Malcolm Bradbury guides us to the Hermitage Anna Pavlova describes her school days Vladimir Nabokov re-lives a...
- Location(s): Panama Canal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1904 Building of the Panama canal
The year is 1904. Nurse Clara Tyler happily spends her days tending patients in rural Ohio. Her brother, who is working in Panama on the great canal, informs the family he must return home due to illness. Too sick...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on a high-stakes case, defending a prominent bank accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost...
- Location(s): Greece, Sparta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
Mother. Monarch. Murderer. Magnificent. You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and comfort yourself with...
- Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2010
This is the first book to be written by a Coast presenter in a narrative format and it will become the definitive guide to our coastline. Nick Crane brings his geographer’s eye and love of the British landscape to...
- Location(s): Cobble Hill
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the eclectic Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill, the lives of four married couples and their children are about to flip from complicated to combustible… Mandy is so underwhelmed by motherhood that she’s faking a debilitating disease to get...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A successful housebreaker who leaves no traces and no clues as he strips Reykjavík homes of their valuables has been a thorn in the police’s side for months. But when one night the thief breaks into the wrong house,...
- Location(s): Catalonia, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back over centuries
Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that...
Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom
- Location(s): Connemara
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is the final work in Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, and completes his breathtakingly intricate journey through the Irish peninsula (the first two are: Listening to the Wind and The Last Pool of Darkness). Connemara is not just a...
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