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The Art of Death

The Art of Death
  • Author(s): David Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death is an art, and he is the master . . . Three glass cabinets appear in London’s Trafalgar Square containing a gruesome art installation: the floating corpses of three homeless men. Shock turns to horror when it becomes...

The Art of Travel

The Art of Travel
  • Author(s): Alain de Botton
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Few activities seem to promise is as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where...

The artificial Silk Girl

The artificial Silk Girl
  • Author(s): Irmgard Keun
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Axeman’s Jazz

The Axeman’s Jazz
  • Author(s): Ray Celestin
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919

New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes . . .  New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer – The Axeman – stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him . ....

The Backpacking Housewife

The Backpacking Housewife
  • Author(s): Janice Horton
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there’s only one thing to do – grab...

The Ballad of a Small Player

The Ballad of a Small Player
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Macau (Macao)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’ His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days...

The Ballad of Ronan McCoy

The Ballad of Ronan McCoy
  • Author(s): Colin Morgan
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A tender coming-of-age story about friendship, first love, loss, and facing the ultimate question: who am I going to be? For fans of Douglas Stuart, Michael Magee, David Nicholls and Andrew O’Hagan Brendan’s best friend, his only friend, is...

The Bandit Queens

The Bandit Queens
  • Author(s): Parini Shroff
  • Location(s): Uttar Pradesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife… Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a...

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...

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