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Edith Campbell Berry, an Australian at the League of Nations in Geneva, watches the League fail through the 1930s and lives her own unconventional life.
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G.
The son of an Italian merchant and an American heiress, raised in England, grows up into G., a seducer, against the background of Europe before the First World War.
All That I Am
Ruth Becker, an old woman in Sydney, remembers her youth in Berlin among the German left in the 1930s, and the exile in London with the playwright Ernst Toller and her cousin Dora.
When I Lived in Modern Times
In 1946 Evelyn Sert, a twenty-year-old Jewish hairdresser from Soho, sails to Palestine and is caught up in Tel Aviv and the struggle for a new state.
The Lacuna
Harrison Shepherd, born in America and raised in Mexico, works as a cook in the household of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and then as secretary to Leon Trotsky in exile.
In America
In 1876 Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, leaves the stage and sails with her husband, her son and a few friends to found a utopian farm in California.
Bosnian Chronicle
In 1807 a French consul arrives in Travnik, the remote seat of the Ottoman vizier of Bosnia, followed by an Austrian rival, and both spend years trying to make sense of the place.
Martha Quest
Martha Quest, a restless, bookish girl on a farm in British Central Africa in the 1930s, leaves for the colonial town to find a life of her own.
For Two Thousand Years
A young Jewish architecture student in Bucharest in the 1920s and 30s keeps a diary as the antisemitism of his friends and teachers grows around him.
The Magic Mountain
A young man arrives at an Alpine sanatorium for a three-week visit and stays seven years, as the intellectual debates among the patients mirror Europe's slide towards World War I.
Poor Fellow My Country
Jeremy Delacy, a cattleman in the Northern Territory, and his Aboriginal grandson Prindy live through the years leading up to the Second World War, in one of the longest of all Australian novels.
King of the Rainy Country
Van der Valk, the Amsterdam police inspector, is asked to find a rich industrialist who has walked out of his life, and follows his trail across Europe.
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar Hopkins, a nervous young Anglican priest with a gambling habit, and Lucinda Leplastrier, an Australian heiress who has bought a glassworks, meet on a ship bound for Sydney in the 1860s.