- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Let the wind take me and the soft rain settle me into the Irish soil from where I came. And may my sins be forgiven.’ Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M.J. Rose...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Early 1900s
It’s 1907 Los Angeles. Mischievous socialite Anna Blanc is the kind of young woman who devours purloined crime novels but must disguise them behind covers of more domestically-appropriate reading. She could match wits with Sherlock Holmes, but in her...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced...
The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Humour, Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Syrian lingerie is racy attire little-known in the west. Manufactured in Syria and exported throughout the Middle East, it blinks, sings, vibrates, and flashes lights, and is adorned with everything from faux fir to artificial flowers and feathered birds...
- Location(s): London, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1943 /2017
Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A stunning debut from a new Australian writer – the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop. At eighteen, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little more than her love of books and...
The Secret of the Sacred Scarab
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 21st century
In this exciting Middle Grade adventure set in Egypt, a 5000-year-old mystery comes to life. A scruffy peddler gives Adam and Justin Sinclair an old Egyptian scarab on their very first day in Egypt. Only when the evil Dr....
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
Emily looks like she has it all Living the dream There’s the lovingly restored Tuscan farmhouse, the three beautiful children, the successful husband, the newspaper column detailing her glamorous expat life. But when Emily’s husband dumps her by text...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Tom Rob Smith’s first book, Child 44, enjoyed unprecedented attention and acclaim (as did its youthful author), so it was inevitable that the appetite for that novel’s successor would be keen. Now it’s here, and The Secret Speech, largely...
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