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Invitation to Italy

Invitation to Italy
  • Author(s): Victoria Springfield
  • Location(s): Procida
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abi is distraught when her ex-husband Alex takes their twelve-year-old daughter, Chloe to spend the summer with his glamorous fiancée Marisa and her parents at their home on the beautiful Italian island of Procida. Persuaded by her best friend...

The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets

The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Sophie Hannah
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah’s fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man’s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing...

The Beaver Theory

The Beaver Theory
  • Author(s): Antti Tuomainen, David Hackston (Translator)
  • Location(s): Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Rabbit Factor Book 3) Can everyone’s favourite insurance mathematician, Henri, combine the increasingly dangerous world of adventure parks with the unpredictability of blended-family life? He’s about to find out in the final instalment of the hilarious, nail-biting Rabbit...

No Funeral for Nazia

No Funeral for Nazia
  • Author(s): Taha Kehar
  • Location(s): Karachi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In her final days, she wields a pen one last time as she fills her diary with instructions for her sister, Naureen,...

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...

Upstairs at the Beresford

Upstairs at the Beresford
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hotel Beresford is a grand, old building, just outside the city. And any soul is welcome.   Danielle Ortega works nights, singing at whatever dive bar will offer her a gig. She gets by, keeping to herself. Sam Walker...

London, With Love

London, With Love
  • Author(s): Sarra Manning
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

London. Nine million people. Two hundred and seventy tube stations. Every day, thousands of chance encounters, first dates, goodbyes and happy ever afters. And for twenty years it’s been where one man and one woman can never get their...

Across Florida Straits

Across Florida Straits
  • Author(s): Marvin Cook
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Recent

ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to...

GREEN SHOOTS

GREEN SHOOTS
  • Author(s): Nicola Clifford
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

The inheritors of a country estate are up in arms about eco-warriors on their land, but just how far will they go? DCI Ben James and DS Jack Trent are called out to a community of self-sufficient environmental activists...

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Bishopstone
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s and Present Day

1940. At Yew Tree House, recently widowed Adelaide Stride is raising her two daughters alone – but it’s not just the threat of German invasion that keeps her up at night. She is surrounded by enemies posing as allies...

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