- Location(s): Antibes, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1948
1948: an English housewife trapped in a dull marriage escapes to the South of France to claim a mystery inheritance. But rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge, and now they want her out of the way …...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the...
- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to Sao Paulo–a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa–and the world, as far as they know–to have survived a devastating virus which has...
- Location(s): Dallas, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s/2014
Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America’s richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become...
- Location(s): Israel, Palestine
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): contemporary
Ten years after breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels to write life at the roadsides of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. His journey weaves from fertile...
- Location(s): Halifax NS
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Nova Scotia 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm. So when she sees a shadow...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mystical, yet at the same time worldly, and written in a quirky lilt (in three very different voices), this feast for the senses will lavish your own life with tears and delight, and perhaps a little more than a...
- Location(s): Venice, London
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): 2018 looking back over 20 years
He’s the old flame she’s tried to put out. But should they rekindle their love—one more time? When bestselling romance novelist Olivia Sackville arrives at Venice’s prestigious winter literary festival, she’s prepared for everything except seeing Leo Greene—Britain’s number-one...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century/Early 21st century
Set around London/South East England and mainly in Cornwall. When Wren Irving’s numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn’t tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter Phoebe...
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