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The First Act of Summer

The First Act of Summer
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Mudeford Spit
  • Genre(s): Historical, Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to 2022

As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side. But childhood friendships...

Twenty Years Later

Twenty Years Later
  • Author(s): Charlie Donlea
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century to modern

Two decades after an event that shook the world, a chilling cold case murder is about to make the headlines all over again DNA from a tiny bone fragment has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make...

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Portrait of an Unknown Woman
  • Author(s): Camille de Peretti, Hildegarde Serle (translator)
  • Location(s): Italy, United States (USA), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century to modern

A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt’s ‘Portrait of a Lady’ was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year...

We Would Never Tell

We Would Never Tell
  • Author(s): Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gowns. Champagne. Murder. Hollywood, but make it French, for twelve days straight, as the red carpet rolls out to the riviera for the Cannes Film Festival. The most famous people are all here to celebrate themselves, while the rest...

Herscht 07769

Herscht 07769
  • Author(s): Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)
  • Location(s): Thuringia (Thüringen)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer...

Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America

Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America
  • Author(s): Katrina Shawver
  • Location(s): Krakow
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1930s-1950s, WWII,

Poland, 1942. Henry Zguda was at home in the water. But one night in May, the German SS arrested the celebrated competitive swimmer in Kraków for the sole crime of being Polish. Two weeks later, he was far from...

The Killer in Room Five

The Killer in Room Five
  • Author(s): Sam Holland
  • Location(s): Basingstoke
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is Louisa Scarr writing as Sam Holland A terrible confession In an isolated room in Hollowpines, an infamous psychiatric hospital, Joe Sinclair is confessing to a violent murder. An impossible crime Locked away, Joe couldn’t possibly have killed...

Eye Spy

Eye Spy
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Waiting for the Eurostar in Paris, Mark’s four-year-old daughter alerts him to a ‘Bad Man’ during a game of ‘Eye Spy’. Things only get worse when Mark notices that the man is on their train with a suspicious-looking suitcase,...

The Enigma Challenge

The Enigma Challenge
  • Author(s): S C Godfrey
  • Location(s): Paris, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe Wilder has the unflashy, solitary life of an academic, studying ciphers in literature at a California university. When her research takes her to a cryptology conference in Madrid, she’s not expecting to kick off the Enigma Challenge, a...

Kin

Kin
  • Author(s): Tayari Jones
  • Location(s): The American South
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s/60s

A yearning for their missing mothers pulls Vernice and Annie apart. It will take a devastating tragedy to bring them back together. Vernice and Annie are ‘cradle friends’, born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, both destined never to know...

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