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The Bookshop of Secrets

The Bookshop of Secrets
  • Author(s): Mollie Rushmeyer
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A collection of lost books holds the clues to her family’s legacy…and her future. Hope Sparrow has mastered the art of outrunning her tragic past, learning never to stay anywhere too long and never to allow anyone control over...

The Broken Places

The Broken Places
  • Author(s): Russell Franklin
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In 1931, Gregory Hemingway’s life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite son of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship. In...

The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living...

The Burning Grounds

The Burning Grounds
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who...

The Burning Man

The Burning Man
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set around London – Kings Cross, Brixton, The City and Belgravia…. London is under siege. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and as the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless man burns to...

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...

The Case of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri 4)

The Case of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri 4)
  • Author(s): Tarquin Hall
  • Location(s): Agra, Delhi, Luknow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman’s parents are dead set against the union. She’s from a high-caste family: he’s an Untouchable, from the lowest strata of Indian society. Young Tulsi’s father locks her up and...

The Case of the Man who Died Laughing

The Case of the Man who Died Laughing
  • Author(s): Tarquin Hall
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tarquin Hall’s second novel is a great read for those interested in India, its people, and its customs. It features Vish Puri a 50 year old detective in Delhi with a large family who often features in his sleuthing....

The Case of the Missing Servant (Vish Puri 1)

The Case of the Missing Servant (Vish Puri 1)
  • Author(s): Tarquin Hall
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

We plunge into the intimate life of Indian culture, with Vish Puri, skilled detective, and through him experience the bowels of Indian life. This debut finds him checking out the suspiciously squeaky-clean groom of the daughter of a strict...

The Cat with Three Passports

The Cat with Three Passports
  • Author(s): C J Fentiman
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

A girl struggling to fit in. A homeless kitten. An unexpected job offer in an unfamiliar country that changes everything. CJ had a long history of escaping places and people she wasn’t fond of. But for the sake of...

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