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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

$19.99
From the award winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when...
The Stationery Shop of Tehran

The Stationery Shop of Tehran

$19.99
1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles,...
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

$19.99
Winner 1989 Booker Prize: A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never...
Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son

$22.99
A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...
Belladonna

Belladonna

$22.99
A coming-of-age novel about love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s ItalyIsabella is worldly, alluring and brazen. Everything that Bridget is not. So when they both receive...
All These Bodies

All These Bodies

$18.99
All These Bodies is the blood-chilling supernatural thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author Kendare Blake. For months, a gruesome killer has been plaguing the Midwest. The murderer’s calling card?...
A Tall History of Sugar

A Tall History of Sugar

$19.99
Shortlisted for the Fiction category in the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees, Moshe Fisher's provenance is a thing of myth and...
Aria

Aria

$19.99
1950s Tehran. In an alleyway an abandoned baby cries into the night, attracting the attention of the young man who will save her. And so begins the story of Aria,...
A Woman of Intelligence

A Woman of Intelligence

$24.99
An exhilarating tale of one remarkable woman’s journey to find her purpose, and herself, in post-war America. Hailed as ‘whip smart’ by Australian Women’s Weekly. New York, 1954. A Fifth...
The Dying Day (Malabar House #2)

The Dying Day (Malabar House #2)

$22.99
Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.Bombay, 1950. For over a century,...
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy #2)

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy #2)

$19.99
In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi’s new novel, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur palace in a tale rich in character,...
A Taste of Power

A Taste of Power

$24.99
A Black Woman’s Story The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown — the first female leader of the Black Panthers "I have all the guns and all the money. I can...
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The Seventh Veil of Salome

$34.99
The sumptuous historical epic from the author of Mexican Gothic. Golden Age Hollywood - a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role...
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The People in the Trees

$22.99
A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life. ‘The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.’ – The Times  In 1950 Norton Perina, a...
A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

$21.99
This is the story of an unusual and lifelong friendship between two Afghan women, spanning from the idyllic mid 1950s to post-September 11 Kabul. Bound by tragedy and fate, by...
An Ocean Apart

An Ocean Apart

$22.99
Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother’s own experiences as a nurse coming to Britain from the Caribbean, Sarah Lee’s debut novel An Ocean Apart...
Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House #4)

Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House #4)

$32.99
In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and...
The Reformatory

The Reformatory

$27.99
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he...
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Promise

$24.99
'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon James The people of Salt Point are afraid...
Belladonna (PL)

Belladonna (PL)

$10.00
A coming-of-age novel about love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy Isabella is worldly, alluring and brazen. Everything that Bridget is not. So when they both...
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Ways of Sunlight

$22.99
From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility With equal humour, sorrow...
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Point Zero

$24.99
Translated by Louise Heal Kawai A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries...
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On the Rooftop

$22.99
Longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA Most Anticipated Book according to The Millions, Ms. Magazine and Good Housekeeping Ruth, Esther and Chloe have been singing in harmony since...
The Lonely Londoners

The Lonely Londoners

$39.99
The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new...
The Dogs

The Dogs

$27.99
Haunted by a childhood tragedy, a man looks back on his past and rediscovers a new meaning to his life. In The Dogs, Guan, a middle-aged man, decides to move...
Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge

$32.99
A Biography Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer — the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award — who broke new ground in Hollywood...
The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3)

The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3)

$32.99
THE THRILLING NEW MYSTERY FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSEBombay, 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra...
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy #1)

The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy #1)

$19.99
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she...
The Fortune Men

The Fortune Men

$22.99
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker PrizeA heart-wrenching novel based on a true miscarriage of justice from an award-winning authorMahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles...
December Breeze

December Breeze

$32.99
Translated by Charlotte Coombe and Isabel AdeyA masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s Colombia.From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives...
The House of Eve

The House of Eve

$24.99
The heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go...
Promise

Promise

$32.99
The people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them areborn, live and die never having gone more than twenty or thirty miles...
Stay, Daughter

Stay, Daughter

$32.99
We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some...
Mirror Girls

Mirror Girls

$19.99
A thrilling paranormal mystery about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, following the brutal murder of their parents, perfect for fans of The Vanishing Half Magnolia Heathwood, heiress to a...
Calypso in London

Calypso in London

$22.99
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Sam Selvon is now widely considered to...
Stealing

Stealing

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“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times...
The Night Travelers

The Night Travelers

$22.99
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping...