- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 19th century
A vanished, tattered black and white photograph, taken in Tehran in 1946. The image of a sombre and inscrutable middle-aged man called Salman Fuladvand, a lieutenant and controversial police chief under Iran’s second last king. It is the memory...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a pair of beloved stories about seeking your destiny…and finding love along the way IRISH THOROUGHBRED Irish lass Adelia Cunnane has entered a fairy tale. Working...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
John Hart delivers his fourth novel — a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget. He would go to Hell At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to...
- Location(s): Minnesota, Aurora
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran “Cork” O’Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his “former” status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine,...
- Location(s): Middlesbrough
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century/modern
Stranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future … But these streets know many stories, some hide...
- Location(s): Albany, New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after he...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 14th Century
From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Do you believe in magic? Elena Montella has some problems. Their names are Reuben, Mark and Prof and she’s engaged to all three of them. But it’s time she made her mind up because they’re all expecting a wedding...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
To mother is to murder, or close enough’, thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She’s recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective...
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