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The Baobab Beach Retreat

The Baobab Beach Retreat
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Tanzania, Cheltenham, Zanzibar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tanzania. A place to be happy, to sleep uncovered with the sound of waves crashing to the shore. For Connie Stone, it’s a place to heal. When Connie leaves behind a cheating husband and heartache in the UK for...

The Beach Holiday

The Beach Holiday
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A somebody. A nobody. A love story waiting to be written . . . All aspiring novelist Honor has ever wanted is to be successful. It’s the only way she can impress the father who abandoned her, the boyfriend...

The Beach Hut

The Beach Hut
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Woolacombe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

On Everdene Sands, a row of beach huts holds the secrets of the families who own them – secrets of unrequited love, plain old-fashioned lust, childhood dreams and long-forgotten hopes… ‘FOR SALE: a rare opportunity to purchase a beach...

The Beekeeper’s Daughter

The Beekeeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Dorset, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1970s

Dorset, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future – until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and alone. Alone, that...

The Bethlehem Murders

The Bethlehem Murders
  • Author(s): Matt Rees
  • Location(s): Bethlehem
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A bumbling, mature history teacher is the sleuth in this book, the policitcal situation is sensitively described and the plot has a superb twist.

The Betrayal (The Guernsey Novels Book 6)

The Betrayal (The Guernsey Novels Book 6)
  • Author(s): Anne Allen
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2 and contemporary

Treachery and theft lead to death – and love 1940. Teresa Bichard and her baby are sent by her beloved husband, Leo, to England as the Germans draw closer to Guernsey. Days later they invade… 1942. Leo, of Jewish...

The Betrayed

The Betrayed
  • Author(s): Reine Arcache Melvín
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sister’s conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their...

The Big Picture

The Big Picture
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot – Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the...

The Big Weird

The Big Weird
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino’s client believes Samantha McNeal has...

The Biology of Luck

The Biology of Luck
  • Author(s): Jacob M Appel
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At 29, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier to start sleeping with a man than to stop. Her lovers include one of...

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