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The Helper by David Jackson, thriller set in New York. A really exciting rollercoaster. Every turn of the page is an up or down, a curve and an upside down. Every character plays their part with perfect timing and...
A Heart Bent out of Shape by Emylia Hall: book set in Switzerland (Lausanne). Anyone who dreams of a picture book build-up to Christmas should spend December in Switzerland! “In Lausanne’s old town, felt-hatted merchants in leather aprons sold brown paper...
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín was awarded the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and of course is a book set in New York – Brooklyn. Clean, clear writing that spurs the reader into turning page after page! It also features on...
The View from the Tower by Charles Lambert: novel set in Rome. Another cracking novel from Charles Lambert that transports the reader to Rome, the everyday Rome that often only the locals are ‘privileged’ to experience (it could be,...
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Novel set in Iceland. Fiction can provide us with the chance to travel in time as well as in space, on a double trip as it were, and Hannah Kent’s first novel, Burial Rites,...
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