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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
  • Author(s): Jamie Ford
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1942 to modern

1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during...

House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)

House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya’s epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series...

House of Orphans

House of Orphans
  • Author(s): Helen Dunmore
  • Location(s): Finland, Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland’s freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father...

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera
  • Author(s): Sharon Upp
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1910s

This is story of Diego Rivera’s first wife, Angeline Beloff, an artist from pre-revolutionary Russia and her relationship with him in, part set in Belle Époque Paris.

How to Keep Well in Wartime

How to Keep Well in Wartime
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): Norfolk, France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1915 to 1993

Emily needs friends. Outwardly successful, about to get married, inside she is scared and grieving. When an accident reveals a relative she never knew existed, everything changes. Jim has buried his life in a mundane job at the Ministry...

Human Remains

Human Remains
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock are back in a cutting-edge new thriller. The truth will always come out, but at what cost?  Fresh from successfully closing their first live case, the Future Policing Unit are called in to investigate...

Hunter Killer

Hunter  Killer
  • Author(s): Brad Taylor
  • Location(s): Charleston, Brazil, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2018

The Taskforce were once apex predators, an unrivalled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the USA, but they may have met their match. While Pike is preparing to join the team on a counter-terrorist mission in South...

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
  • Author(s): Nujood Ali
  • Location(s): Yemen
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

(copied from Amazon.co.uk) “I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Nujood Ali’s childhood...

I am Pilgrim

I am Pilgrim
  • Author(s): Terry Hayes
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive...

I Love Capri

I Love Capri
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Capri, Verona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Kim Rees became a translator for the glamorous jet-set lifestyle. So, five years later, how come she’s ended up in a basement flat in Cardiff translating German computer games in her dressing gown? Fortunately her mother has a plan...

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