- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): early 21st century
Blessed–or cursed–with a connection to the souls of others, Sloan Jordan can see the best in people… and the worst. For twenty-seven years, she’s kept her ability a secret, but eleven young women have been murdered in the mountains...
- Location(s): India, Kent
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
‘Tamara is going to kill her mother, but she isn’t the villain. Tamara just has to finish what began at her birth and put an end to the damage encoded in her blood. Quitting her job in Communications, Tamara...
- Location(s): New Zealand
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The body of a woman has been found on a pristine New Zealand beach – over a decade after she was murdered. Detective Matt Buchanan of the Auckland Police is certain it carries all the hallmarks of an unsolved...
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘Flanagan’s enthralling and powerful novel centres on a Slovenian couple, Bojan and Maria Buloh, and their daughter Sonja. The story begins in 1954, when Sonja is three, and ends in 1990, when she is in her late thirties ....
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On assignment Eduard and Borja check out an exclusive meditation centre in the ritziest part of Barcelona, only to discover the director murdered, whacked in the head with a statuette of the Buddha. The violent death of a neighbour...
The sound of the buffalo bells: Stories from Laos
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Amongst temples and banks, rice fields and jungles the reader meets forest-eaters and world-travelling buffaloes, a frog who wants to swallow the moon, a man who sells luck and another who sells air, and a young boy who wants...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950
This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach...
- Location(s): Barcelona, Madrid
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1890s - 1940s
A rich novel of music, politics and life, seen throught the eyes of Feliu
- Location(s): Madrid, Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Spanish Civil War
Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the...
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