- Location(s): Nuoro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realises he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when, a few years later, Michele himself...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Fantasy
- Era(s): Future
In the new Republic of Texas, guns are compulsory and nothing is forgiven. Blue Running is a gripping coming-of-age thriller for fans of Station Eleven and Thelma and Louise. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
When a body washes up on Crosby Beach in Liverpool Bay, detectives quickly declare foul play. Yet they will struggle to establish the identity of the victim, let alone the killer. Leading the inquiry on his first murder case,...
- 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...
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