Category: Historical
Ruta Sepetys “Salt to the Sea”
Joana, Emilia, Florian and Alfred. Four young people with a different story each. “Salt to…
Madeline Miller “Circe”
This is the story of the famous witch Circe, banished to the remote island of…
Aidan Meehan “The Treasury of Celtic Knots”
London : Thames & Hudson, 2005 Check from e-catalogue ESTER. Ursula Aavasalu The Department of Literature…
Lucinda Riley “The Seven Sisters: Maia’s Story”
London: Pan Books, 2018 Check from e-catalogue ESTER. Check from e-library OverDrive. Jaanika Tappo Department of Literature…
Kathleen Rooney “Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk”
This book is inspired by the life and work of a poet and ad woman…
Sue Monk Kidd “The Invention of Wings”
I stumbled upon Sue Monk Kidd’s „The Invention of Wings“ while looking for „The Secret…
Martin Idol „100 things to do in Tallinn“
As travelling is pretty difficult at the moment, this superb book provides 100 possibilities to…
Willa Cather “Death Comes for the Archbishop”
A strong smell of campfire is permeating the traveler’s clothes and hair. After a long…
“Vienna Tales”
Vienna is situated in the heart of Europe. If I think about Vienna, there are…
Sjón “The Blue Fox”
Sjón is an Icelandic writer whose novel „The Blue Fox“ has been translated into many…
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows „My Lady Jane“
Thrilling, creative and absolutely hilarious twist on history. It’s easy to make the reader cry….
Alma Katsu “The Hunger”
“The Hunger” is a book that is quite hard to describe: it is part historical…
Min Jin Lee “Pachinko”
This might easily be one of the best fiction books written based on Korean and…
Mary Lynn Bracht “White Chrysanthemum”
“Some historians believe fifty thousand to two hundred thousand Korean women and girls were stolen,…
Mackenzi Lee “The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue”
We step into the world of a spoiled brat who is not happy about the…