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The Gate of Angels

The Gate of Angels
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Cambridge, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1912

Set in Cambridge and London in 1912, The Gate of Angels is a love story and a novel of ideas. Fred, a rector’s son, has abandoned religion for observable truths, whereas the undereducated Daisy is a Christian for whom...

The German Wife

The German Wife
  • Author(s): Debbie Rix
  • Location(s): Munich, Dachau, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Pre WWII - Current Day

Inspired by a true story Germany, 1939: Annaliese is a doctor’s wife, living in an elegant grey stone house with ivy creeping over the balcony. But when her husband is ordered to work at the Dachau labour camp, her ordinary...

The Gilded Chalet

The Gilded Chalet
  • Author(s): Padraig Rooney
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Rainy summer of 1816. Paparazzi train their telescopes across Lake Geneva on the hanky-panky of Byron, Shelley and their womenfolk. Mary Shelley is inspired to write Frankenstein. Byron diets and dashes off The Prisoner of Chillon while his doctor, ‘Pollydolly’, gives birth...

The Girl from Nongrim Hills

The Girl from Nongrim Hills
  • Author(s): Ankush Saikia
  • Location(s): Shillong
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bok, a guitar player with a Shillong band, has a lot on his mind. His elder brother Kitdor has lost 50 lakh rupees on a trip to Nagaland to purchase arms for a group of militants. Kitdor is given...

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons
  • Author(s): Karin Smirnoff, Sarah Death (translator)
  • Location(s): Northern Sweden
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the bestselling Millennium series Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not...

The Girl on the 88 Bus

The Girl on the 88 Bus
  • Author(s): Freya Sampson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the...

The Girl Who Lived Twice

The Girl Who Lived Twice
  • Author(s): David Lagercrantz
  • Location(s): Stockholm, The Himalayas
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Lisbeth Salander’s mentor and protector Holger Palmgren is dead, and she has been gone from Stockholm since his funeral. All summer, Mikael Blomkvist has been plagued by the fear that Salander’s enemies will come after her. He should, perhaps,...

The Girl with No Shadow

The Girl with No Shadow
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

This is the same book as “The Lollipop Shoes”

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium Trilogy 1)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium Trilogy 1)
  • Author(s): Stieg Larsson
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Setin Södermalm, a trendy, bohemian district in Stockholm, where charming galleries and cafes mingle with historic wooden cottages. Central to the plot are Kalle Blomquist, a journalist convicted of libel and Lisbeth Salander, an expert system hacker and investigator,...

The Girl with the Red Hair

The Girl with the Red Hair
  • Author(s): Buzzy Jackson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Haarlem
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940

1940, Amsterdam. You’re nineteen years old. The war has stolen your future and your country is under siege. The people you love are no longer safe. Will you stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip...

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