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Wide Sargasso Sea

1992
Story of a young woman in the Caribbean whose family's past will be used against her by her cold-hearted and prideful husband, Rochester.

Prince William & Kate

a royal romance
2012
Photographs and text trace the relationship of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton.

The quiet American

2004
An eager young American channels economic aid to a "third force", but when a British journalist intervenes his motives are suspect because the American takes his Vietnamese mistress away from him.

When we were orphans

2000
Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.

In Afghanistan

two hundred years of British, Russian and American occupation
2009
An exploration of the history of Afghanistan since 1808 that focuses on the country's foreign relations and discusses Russian, British, and American involvement.

Alfred and Emily

2008
Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing provides a fictional account of her parent's experiences during World War I, when her father was a farmer turned soldier who lost a leg, and her mother was a nurse stationed at Royal Free Hospital; and also describes their relationship after the close of the Great War, based on the real-life memories of the author.

Lilla's feast

a true story of food, love, and war in the Orient
2004
The author presents the story of her great-grandmother Lilla's life growing up in a privileged family in North China and the cookbook she composed at age sixty while held prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two.

The game

a Mary Russell novel
2004
Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, but when Holmes' gravely ill brother brings news of a mystery, the couple set off to solve another mystery that is complicated by the government, family ties, and a decades-old secret.

Kipling's India

uncollected sketches 1884-88
1986

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