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Lead Me Into Danger

Lead Me Into Danger
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Journalist…A Jewel Thief…And A Russian Spy… When Their Paths Cross, It’s Murder. Journalist Emmeline Kirby hasn’t laid eyes on her former lover Gregory Longdon, a jewel thief, in two years. But she literally tumbles into his arms, after...

Learning German (badly)

Learning German (badly)
  • Author(s): Tim Luscombe
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

“Not many know and love Europe, and our complex relationship with it, like Luscombe. And no one can communicate that with such fantastically self-deprecating wit.” Federay Holmes, Associate Artist at the Globe Theatre London. With the possiblity looming that...

Lemon

Lemon
  • Author(s): Kwon Yeo-sun, Janet Hong (Translator)
  • Location(s): Seoul
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the summer of 2002, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on was murdered in what became known as the High School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could...

Letters From Burma

Letters From Burma
  • Author(s): Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma’s borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people...

Letters to a Beekeeper

Letters to a Beekeeper
  • Author(s): Steve Benbow, Alys Fowler
  • Location(s): London, Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table book, part...

Life’s a Beach and Then…

Life’s a Beach and Then…
  • Author(s): Julia Roberts
  • Location(s): England, Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Holly Wilson has landed a dream job which involves her staying at five-star resorts around the world. There is however a proviso. She must travel incognito and that means telling lies. Holly hates lies. Her cover story, designed to...

Light Rains Sometimes Fall

Light Rains Sometimes Fall
  • Author(s): Lev Parikian
  • Location(s): West Norwood
  • Genre(s): Nature, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2020/21

See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of seventy-two seasons: revealing the beauty of small and subtle changes with joy and verve.

Literary Places

Literary Places
  • Author(s): Sarah Baxter
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the lives of the authors and the works that make them...

Little Deaths

Little Deaths
  • Author(s): Emma Flint
  • Location(s): Queens
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

It’s the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search,...

Little Drummer

Little Drummer
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Kenya, Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose … until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo Detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim’s Kenyan scientist...

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