I Capture the Castle
First novel by the English author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley had moved to California
romance
White Teeth
2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith
Othello
Tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary OttomanVenetian War fought for the control of the Island of Cyprus, since 1489 a possession of the Venetian Republic
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his 1985 play Les liaisons dangereuses, itself adapted from the 1782 French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Worm Ouroboros
Heroic high fantasy novel by English writer E. R. Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and partly reminiscent of Norse sagas
Georgette Heyer
English novelist and short-story writer, in both the regency romance and detective fiction genres
Dorothy Dunnett
Scottish novelist best known for her historical fiction