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Glass Half Full: The Ups and Downs of Vineyard Life in France

Glass Half Full: The Ups and Downs of Vineyard Life in France
  • Author(s): Caro Feely
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Hand harvesting was a different process to machine harvesting. It was convivial and slow. We started at dawn and slowly proceeded across the vineyards. It was better for us and for the grapes, the human scale and pace of...

Glass Houses

Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Francesca Reece
  • Location(s): North Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Somewhere, in a box in Margot Yates’ attic there’s a video of Gethin by the lake at Ty Gwydr. He’s young – nineteen, maybe twenty. It’s late spring and dusk, and a low sun leaks white light into the...

Glide

Glide
  • Author(s): Alison Jean Lester
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

t’s November in Massachusetts. Leo Coffin is making a birthday cake for his wife, Liv, due home soon from a trip to Norway, when a stranger comes to the door claiming to be Liv’s half-brother, Morten. Too polite to...

Glitter, Glam, and Contraband

Glitter, Glam, and Contraband
  • Author(s): Heather Weidner
  • Location(s): Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Private investigator, Delanie Fitzgerald, and her computer hacker partner, Duncan Reynolds, are back for more sleuthing in Glitter, Glam and Contraband. In this fast-paced mystery, the Falcon Investigations team is hired to find out who is stealing from the...

Glittering Death

Glittering Death
  • Author(s): Carmen Radtke
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1860s

1862. A group of brides from Australia have arrived in British Columbia, and love is in the air – until their new-found happiness in the prospectors’ town “Run’s End” is shattered when the hotel-owner is murdered. To make matters...

Glitz

Glitz
  • Author(s): Louise Bagshawe
  • Location(s): Seychelles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The four beautiful Chambers girls are rolling in money, thanks to the trust fund set up by their reclusive, super-rich uncle Clem. But when he summons his nieces to his mansion in the Seychelles to announce his engagement to...

Globetrotting for Love and Other Stories from Sakhalin Island

Globetrotting for Love and Other Stories from Sakhalin Island
  • Author(s): Ajay Kamalakaran
  • Location(s): Russia, Sakhalin
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2000s

A cleaning lady frustrated with the lack of manners of the occupants of the building sets out to teach them a lesson or two. Philandering ways and addiction to alcohol force a marriage to flounder and the wife to...

Gloria Don’t Speak

Gloria Don’t Speak
  • Author(s): Lucy Apps
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Gloria has a learning disability. She’s nineteen, and there’s nothing to do except wander the local parks, look for friendship and keep out of trouble – or go round Jack’s. Jack needs Gloria’s company, but he’s unpredictable and angry...

Glorious Poison

Glorious Poison
  • Author(s): Kat Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): French Revolution, 18th century

The daring and dramatic conclusion to Kat Dunn’s epic C18th French Revolution trilogy ‘with lashings of lust, love, sacrifice, betrayal and horror’. Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over. As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L’Aubespine...

Glow Job

Glow Job
  • Author(s): Kristen Bailey
  • Location(s): Ibiza, London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A laugh-out-loud, escapist summer holiday rom-com, perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Beth O’Leary and Sophie Kinsella. Chloe needs a holiday. She’s invisible to her boss, overworked and burnt out. What she gets is a chaotic wellness retreat at...

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