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The Tiger Catcher

The Tiger Catcher
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance

Can true love ever die? Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everything changes after he has a fateful encounter with a mysterious young woman named...

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
  • Author(s): Eleni Kyriacou
  • Location(s): London, North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1954

THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can’t speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has...

The War Child

The War Child
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): England, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914 - 1995

“Her mother cradled Clara tightly as they crouched under the table in the basement. As the house started to shake, she took off her silver necklace and with fumbling fingers fastened it around her daughter’s little neck. There was...

The Woman Outside The Walls

The Woman Outside The Walls
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • Location(s): Hamburg, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1929 - 2017

I always knew it would come out one day. They are finding everyone who has stayed hidden. They would have come to me in the end. Hamburg, 1942. Seventeen-year-old Anna knows she can never tell her proud parents the...

There are Rivers in the Sky

There are Rivers in the Sky
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Iraq, London, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Era(s): Years BC to modern

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the...

This Motherless Land

This Motherless Land
  • Author(s): Nikki May
  • Location(s): England, Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1978 - 1998

When Funke’s mother dies in an accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, sensible Funke strives to fit in, determined to become one of them....

Tiepolo Blue

Tiepolo Blue
  • Author(s): James Cahill
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Dulwich
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience...

Titian’s Boatman

Titian’s Boatman
  • Author(s): Victoria Blake
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century and 2011

It is 1576 and Venice is in chaos, ravaged by plague and overrun by crime. In the midst of the anarchy we find those brave souls who have chosen not to flee the city. Titian, most celebrated of Venetian...

Toby Jug

Toby Jug
  • Author(s): Denis O'Connor
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the bestselling author of Paw Tracks in the Moonlight comes a new adventure with Denis O’Connor and his beloved cat Toby Jug. When Denis receives a call to help an abused and starved racehorse called Lady May, he...

Trading Down

Trading Down
  • Author(s): Stephen Norman
  • Location(s): Sana'a, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chris Peters loves his work in a multi-national bank: the excitement of the trading floor, the impossible deadlines and the constant challenge of the superfast computers in his care. And he loves his beautiful wife, Olivia. But over time,...

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