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Gravesend

Gravesend
  • Author(s): William Boyle
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim’s brother, Conway D’Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the...

Gravity Is the Thing

Gravity Is the Thing
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Moriarity
  • Location(s): Sydney, Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors promised...

Great American Railroad Journeys

Great American Railroad Journeys
  • Author(s): Michael Portillo
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2016

Great American Railroad Journeys sees the famous brand of social-history-cum-travelogue venture to the New World. Across multiple programmes and using Appleton’s General Guide To The United States & Canada as reference, Michael Portillo now undertakes an epic trip by train from New York...

Great Big Beautiful Life

Great Big Beautiful Life
  • Author(s): Emily Henry
  • Location(s): South Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Moddern

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress with more than a few plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. When Margaret Ives, the famously...

Great Black Hope

Great Black Hope
  • Author(s): Rob Franklin
  • Location(s): Atlanta, New York City (NYC), The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An arrest for cocaine possession in the Hamptons on the last day of a sweltering summer leaves Smith, a young Black queer graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself...

Great Circle

Great Circle
  • Author(s): Maggie Shipstead
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 and 2000

From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the...

Great State: China and the World

Great State: China and the World
  • Author(s): Timothy Brook
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Across history

China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it...

Greece For Sale

Greece For Sale
  • Author(s): Amelia Short
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She moved to Crete to sell dream villas. She didn’t expect to fall for the man buying one. Mia Summers is smart, single, and tired of being the only woman at the wedding without a plus-one. So she does...

Greece on my Wheels

Greece on my Wheels
  • Author(s): Edward Enfield
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Fired by a long enthusiasm for all things Greek, Edward Enfield mounts his trusty Raleigh to follow in the footsteps of such notable travellers to Greece as Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Lear and the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Fortified by...

Greek Awakening

Greek Awakening
  • Author(s): D L Garner
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Current

‘There is nothing like a Greek man to get you over the love of your life, now I just have to get over the Greek man!’ After a relationship break-up, Helen travels over 9000 miles from her native Australia...

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