- Location(s): Appleby-in-Westmorland
- Genre(s): Noir, Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The traditional Appleby Horse Fair hosts the largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe. The sudden influx of more than 40,000 visitors into the small Lakeland town has always caused its share of problems, with strained relations between...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1083-1131
It is Anno Domini 1083. At the Blachernae Palace in Constantinople, a princess is born. What will her fate be? Will she be married off in order to create an advantageous political alliance? Or will she be sent to...
- Location(s): Tromøy
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
No. 3 in the series. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
On the eve of World War II, Claude Lim, a Chinese youth, uncertain of himself and his nationality, is being raised in a family that strongly identifies with the British colonists in Singapore. The family neither speaks nor understands...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War 2
Nazi-occupied Rome sets the stage for Bridge of Sighs and Dreams, where the lives of two women collide in an arena of deception, greed, and sacrifice. Following an allied attack, Angelina Rosini flees to Rome from her bombed-out village...
Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)
- Location(s): Cahirsiveen, County Kerry
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When bright, beautiful Penny O’Dwyer disappears from Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, the local police scour the narrow streets and muddy hills, but find no leads. Jessie Boyle swore she’d never return to Ireland. But...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
In Chris Ware’s own words, ‘Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life: a couple who wonder if...
- Location(s): Vienna, Jerusalem, Lebanon, London, Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother’s arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the ‘Golden Land’. David is hated by his father – an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
The world is on the brink of disaster.The environment, society and mankind itself are facing extreme challenges in a world that is both more connected, and yet more divided than ever before. Fear and confusion seep into all parts...