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Berlin

Berlin
  • Author(s): Bea Setton
  • Location(s): Kreuzberg, Neukölln
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do the...

Betrayal

Betrayal
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Honduras
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns. The new high-octane international thriller from David Gilman. Someone’s trying to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone. It has been many years since Dan...

Betty

Betty
  • Author(s): Tiffany McDaniel
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence – both from outside the family and also, devastatingly,...

Between Love and Hate

Between Love and Hate
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): China, Bahrain, Idaho, Montenegro, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1930-2010

Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.

Between the Orange Groves

Between the Orange Groves
  • Author(s): Nadia Marks
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th/21st Century

In a small village, set among the wild mountains of Cyprus, two families of different faiths share a seemingly unbreakable friendship based on mutual respect and deep affection. Mothers and daughters share their daily secrets, fathers and sons support...

Between the Stops

Between the Stops
  • Author(s): Sandi Toksvig
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It’s about a bus trip really, because it’s my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker...

Between the Woods and the Water

Between the Woods and the Water
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): Europe, Hungary, Romania
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

this is the sequel to ‘A Time of Gifts’, and Fermor continues his walk through the length of 1930s Europe. Starting from where the previous book left off, at the border into Hungary, and on to “the Iron Gates”...

Beyond A Broken Sky

Beyond A Broken Sky
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Somerset, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945 and 2022

Some secrets are better left buried… 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and...

Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea
  • Author(s): Melissa Bailey
  • Location(s): Inner Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Set on a tiny fictional island off the coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides. One summer’s day, Freya’s husband and son vanish at sea. A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper’s cottage on a remote...

Birthright

Birthright
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter...

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