Fiction Spring 2024

After nearly twenty years away, Maira returns to her childhood town on the Baltic coast. She has only one thing in mind: clear her parents’ house, which has stood empty since her mother’s death, ...

Germany, 1960. When Margarete discovers that she’s pregnant, she abandons her university studies with a heavy heart and agrees to marry Lenz. She fled Hungary as a child and grew up in poverty, a...

North Germany, 1886: The life of Charlotte Kölln’s husband is tragically cut short by an accident at work. There is no time for Charlotte to grieve, though, because the gristmill has to keep grin...

Since her husband’s death, Lilly’s life has been a largely humdrum affair. One day, a stranger enters her little antiques shop and hands her a beautiful violin. He doesn’t want to sell it – he cl...

Venetia Grey, the director’s secretary, is the beating heart of the Ritz Hotel in London. She has seen kings, actors, politicians and princesses come and go. She has witnessed back-room business ...

‘Your mother has disappeared.’ That’s all he said, while a series of emotions crossed his face: disbelief, shock, and finally that fear. That’s what I remember most: the fear, which now haunted t...

Murano, 1893. Orietta Volpato isn’t in the least interested in marrying well. She is the rebellious daughter of a Venetian family of glassblowers, and has dreams of taking over the family busines...

Northern Germany, 1912. Bertha Kölln’s new breakfast oatmeal is a huge success, and her family is working tirelessly to increase production. But then the Great War arrives in the sleepy little to...

When Diana learns her great aunt has had a stroke, she drops everything and goes to her. On her death bed in Tremayne House, Emmely reveals to Diana that her family is burdened by an old, old sec...

Pina is the daughter of a powerful landowner living in early twentieth-century Sicily. Following a dramatic childhood, she marries the once dirt-poor businessman Barnaba Carbonaro, and defies soc...