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Glass Houses

Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do...

Safe

Safe
  • Author(s): Ryan Gattis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2008

Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses), a gangster-turned-double-agent who wants out of the high-stakes high-risk criminal life, and Ricky Mendoza, Junior (a.k.a. Ghost), a DEA...

Finding Gina

Finding Gina
  • Author(s): Lizzie Chantree
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Current day

A contemporary romance read with a magical twist! Can a sprinkling of stardust overcome a past full of demons? Gina had traversed the breadth of the country in her little campervan to try and find everyone on her grandmother’s...

Love’s Child

Love’s Child
  • Author(s): Lizzie Chantree
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Current day

Friendship, loyalty and deadly secrets. Jemima Trent is desperate to have a designer baby to keep up with her socialite friends, reconnect with her work-obsessed husband, Lucas, and regain some respect from her domineering father. Something curious is happening...

Babe Driven

Babe Driven
  • Author(s): Lizzie Chantree
  • Location(s): The Bahamas
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Current day

Babe Driven: Driving straight out of trouble and into paradise! Harriet’s crazily successful business idea is under serious threat, and the danger seems to be coming from inside her own family. She whisks her sister and her friends away...

The Walls Came Down

The Walls Came Down
  • Author(s): Ewa Dodd
  • Location(s): Warsaw, Chicago, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A young boy goes missing during a workers’ strike in 1980s Communist Poland, unravelling a chain of events which will touch people across decades and continents. Joanna, a young journalist in Warsaw, is still looking for her brother, who’s...

Killer Affair

Killer Affair
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • Location(s): London, Sandlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stunning, charismatic Lexy O’Brien is the reigning queen of British reality TV. Her life in front of the camera is planned and manipulated as successfully as any military assault. But success breeds jealousy. When you’re on top, the only...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Author(s): Milan Kundera
  • Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Thailand, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ‘Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world...

Green days by the river

Green days by the river
  • Author(s): Michael Anthony
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1950s

Another perceptive novel about a boy on the edge of adult responsibilities. It is the story of Shellie, a Trinidadian boy who moves to a new village and there meets two girls. He is charmed by Rosalie but he...

A house for Mr. Biswas

A house for Mr. Biswas
  • Author(s): V S Naipaul
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul’s father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve...

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