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Goodnight, Beautiful

Goodnight, Beautiful
  • Author(s): Aimee Molloy
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From ‘master of clever misdirection’ (Kirkus Reviews) Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes...

Gorilla Dawn

Gorilla Dawn
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The thrilling, heartbreaking, and inspirational new story from award-winning storyteller Gill Lewis. Deep in the heart of the African jungle, a baby gorilla is captured by a group of rebel soldiers. Imara and Bobo are two children also imprisoned...

Goshawk Summer

Goshawk Summer
  • Author(s): James Aldred
  • Location(s): New Forest
  • Genre(s): Nature
  • Era(s): 2020

In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Goshawks in the New Forest, his childhood home. He began to plan a treetop hide in a remote site that would allow...

Gösta Berling’s Saga

Gösta Berling’s Saga
  • Author(s): Selma Lagerlöf, Lillie Tudeer (translator), Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlöf assured her place in Swedish letters with this 1891 novel. The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with...

Gould’s Book of Fish

Gould’s Book of Fish
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1828

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman’s Land who...

Gourmet Rhapsody

Gourmet Rhapsody
  • Author(s): Muriel Barbery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A French food critic faces his mortality in an “entertaining and witty” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’. In the heart of Paris, in the same posh building made famous in ‘The...

Gozo Is The Grass Greener?

Gozo Is The Grass Greener?
  • Author(s): Freya Barrington
  • Location(s): Malta
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present day

Gozo: Is the Grass Greener?, winner of the 2016 Paris Book Festival autobiographical section, and an Honorable mention from the 2016 London Book Festival, is the story of the bestselling author, Freya Barrington, and her husband, Steve, when they...

Grab a Snake by the Tail

Grab a Snake by the Tail
  • Author(s): Leonardo Padura, Peter Bush (Translator)
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Inspector Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when he’s asked to take the case by the beautiful Police Lieutenant Patricia Chion, he cant resist. Pedro Cuang...

Grace

Grace
  • Author(s): Victoria Scott
  • Location(s): Malvern
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nineteen-year-old Michelle has had a tough life, to say the least. Then she gets pregnant. She is convinced she would be a terrible mother but having grown up in care, she cannot bring herself to subject her child to...

Grace & Serenity

Grace & Serenity
  • Author(s): Annalisa Crawford
  • Location(s): Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Living on the streets is terrifying and exhausting. Grace’s only comforts are a steady stream of vodka, and a strange little boy who’s following her around. At nineteen, Grace has already had a child and endured an abusive marriage....

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