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24 Hours in Italy

24 Hours in Italy
  • Author(s): Romi Moondi
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new destination, a familiar spark . . . Two years after 24 Hours in Paris, Mira and Jake collide again, this time for an Italian adventure on the gorgeous Amalfi Coast. With a destination wedding only one day...

73 Dove Street

73 Dove Street
  • Author(s): Julie Owen Moylan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

‘Set in my end of 1950s London, the sense of time and place is beautifully evocative, the ghost of the war, and the sense of societal change about to come. It’s about pride and shame and love and loss...

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
  • Author(s): Mirinae Lee
  • Location(s): East Asia, North East Asia, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER. At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her...

A Beautiful Rival

A Beautiful Rival
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

The world is at war, but on the gilded streets of Fifth Avenue, New York, a battle of a different kind is brewing… New York, 1915. Elizabeth Arden has been New York’s golden girl since her beauty salon opened...

A Better Man

A Better Man
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘One of the greatest crime writers of our times’ DENISE MINA There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. The air is unbearably tense as Armand...

A Bird in Winter

A Bird in Winter
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Birmingham to the Isle of Noss…. Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she’s in a meeting in her office in Birmingham – the next, she’s walking out on her job, her home, her life. It’s...

A Body in the Borderlands

A Body in the Borderlands
  • Author(s): Helen Cox
  • Location(s): The Scottish Borders
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Former investment banker Johan Golding – Joe to his friends – is the newest member of the Hartley and Edwards Investigations team. And he’s thrilled to be shadowing Kitt Hartley, librarian-turned-top sleuth, and her right-hand woman Grace Edwards; even...

A Boy growing up under the Nazi Boot and the Greek Civil War

A Boy growing up under the Nazi Boot and the Greek Civil War
  • Author(s): George C. Kakridas
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940 through 1951

An autobiography of the Author growing up during the Nazi occupation and the Greek Civil War. His story is about the human fortitude for survival under unimaginable and indescribable events.

A Business Affair

A Business Affair
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2021

Helen is thirty-nine and a food specialist in making Japanese Sushi. After her husband confesses to his latest affair, their marriage is over. With the big 40 rapidly approaching, Helen decides to leave her frumpy image behind and have...

A Calamity of Souls

A Calamity of Souls
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1968

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a murder case sets a duo of Black and white lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama...

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