- Location(s): Fife
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1990s
Fife, in the blazing hot summer of 1994. Cora Mowat’s mates don’t understand her, but then Cora Mowat doesn’t understand herself. She’s stuck on a seaside council estate full of dafties, old folk and seagulls, with a million dreams...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets handsome, studious Salvatore, and finds herself enveloped by his family – in particular by his elegant mother, Raffaella, who...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
LA Publicist Hannah is ready to put her broken heart behind her and start afresh. So when a celebrity client offers to lend her a luxury penthouse apartment in New York City, Hannah jumps at the chance. But it...
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
One scorching day in Australia deserted outback, Tommy McBride and his brother Billy return home to discover that their parents have been brutally murdered. Distraught and desperate for revenge, the young men set out in search of the killers....
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
- Location(s): Palm Springs
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes a broken heart is all you need to set you free… Reiko loves the endless sky and electric colours of the Californian desert. It is a refuge from an increasingly claustrophobic life of family pressures and her own...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1990
One summer to learn German. To fall for Berlin. To fall in love. Only one summer. 1997. Reunified Berlin is Europe’s largest construction site. This isn’t where pragmatic Camille imagined spending her summer. But unless she improves her German,...
- Location(s): Harrogate
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): The present day
Meet DCI Cyril Bennett, a man with a passion for manners and efficiency. His partner DS David Owen, is naive and untidy but keen. Together they make a formidable pair. When the discovery of two infants’ bodies is made...
Only This Once Are You Immaculate
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Dystopian
When twins Afya and Aftab, along with their adopted brother Khaled, leave the shelter of a hidden valley, they are astonished by the bustle and noise of the outside world. But beneath this chaos is an order more threatening...
- Location(s): Mexico, California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe – now in his seventy-second year – has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 20th century
When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel’s founding society. The book tells...
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