Multi-Period
The Bishop’s Girl
Outside a French village after the First World War, workers open a grave, intent on sending its occupant home to…
Stolen Beauty
Editors' choice
Vienna at the turn of the 20th century was a hotbed for modern thinkers, artists, and supporters of the arts.…
Root, Petal, Thorn
Editors' choice
“Understand there is a little sad in every story.” Ivy, a recently widowed mother of two, takes that mantra seriously.…
Out West: Travels Through the American West—Past and Present
British writer and filmmaker Tim Slessor created documentaries featuring the American West for the BBC for over 40 years. He…
Fifteen Postcards
Sarah Lester’s parents have mysteriously disappeared, leaving her with The Old Curiosity Shop, an antique shop on the verge of…
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
If streets could talk… Cruickshank focuses like a laser beam upon the buildings of one of London’s best-known neighbourhoods, chronicled…
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa
Starting with the shelling of Algiers by a French battle fleet in 1830, Lawrence James paints a deep and nuanced…
Thimblerigger
This novel can only be described as bizarre, but should one expect anything ordinary from the lead vocalist in a…
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
Dame Jenni Murray, writer and doyenne of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, here offers brief but highly illuminating biographies of…
The Light of Paris
Madeleine endures her cold marriage to Phillip because she was expected to wed by her overly-critical mother. It’s 1999 in…
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