- Location(s): South West France, Saint Sulpice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her past Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the...
- Location(s): Chile
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th century
A sweeping historical drama, based on the true and enduring love of Thomas Cochrane and Maria Graham. Chile, June 1822. Maria Graham, a young British widow, watches as her compatriot Admiral Lord Cochrane sails triumphantly into the Valparaiso Bay,...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A dramatic and moving story set in the same world as the international bestseller The Island from the celebrated novelist Victoria Hislop. The absorbing story of the Cretan village of Plaka and the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga –...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Detective Inspector Stanley Low – belligerent, bipolar and brilliant. A Chinese-Singaporean, educated in London, with a foot in both cities. His mission, to eradicate violent crime wherever he finds it. Low is having a bad day. His bipolar disorder...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who you can trust when all you see is lies....
Marked for Revenge: An Art Heist Thriller
- Location(s): Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): present day
An adrenaline-fueled adventure set in the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, and Turkey about stolen art, the mafia, and a father’s vengeance. When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with an...
Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle Book 2)
- Location(s): Sussex
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1939
Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . . The sunlit days of childish games and family meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At...
- Location(s): Barcelona, Spain
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco’s Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In this novel, Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain’s most celebrated novelists, speaks...
- Location(s): Marrakech
- Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
- Era(s): Various
This unique anthology of crime fiction features 15 original stories of “scandals, smugglers, and other sordid tales” by award-winning Moroccan authors (CrimeReads). At first glance, Marrakech may seem like an odd setting for noir fiction. Contemporary Moroccans call it...
- Location(s): Richmond (VA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Summer 2020
Marriage and Other Monuments is a multigenerational drama set against a tumultuous time of racial tension in the South. In the summer of 2020, social justice protests and the removal of Confederate monuments rock the city of Richmond as...
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