- Location(s): Calabria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Post 2014
Some places stay with you forever… When Ellie Maddison is sent on a business trip to Southern Italy, she’s reminded why she loves her job – set amongst rolling vineyards and rich olive groves, the beautiful Villa Rosso is...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it....
- Location(s): Hastings, Sheffield
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and 1976
It was a summer of love, and a summer of secrets… She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rose waits for her family to arrive at their villa in Tuscany when a casual glance at her husband’s phone tips her world upside down. The text reads simply: ‘Miss you. Love you. Come back soon.’ Daniel has always...
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
- Location(s): Karachi
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a ‘mythopoetic legacy’ of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....
The Sentinel (Jack Reacher 25)
- Location(s): Nashville
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 – his 25th adventure. No one’s bigger than Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup...
- Location(s): Shiraz
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979 onwards
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Iranian Mullahs have offered a $4 million reward to the person who carries out their fatwa, the death sentence of the internationally acclaimed author Sara Santanda. A Danish daily newspaper has in cooperation with Danish PEN Centre invited her...
- Location(s): Berwick upon Tweed
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian and medieval
Set in 1899, the story is about Annie and her older brother, who go to work in the eerie Hexer Hall. Soon we find that Annie can travel in time – and she ends up in the frightening medieval...
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