- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother’s unequal love. As men, the competition continues – for status, money, fame, women … They each betray each...
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Pre revolutionary Havana, where anything can be obtained by means. Greene skewers British Intelligence. James Wormold is a mild-mannered, marginal businessman and vacuum cleaner salesman, is approached by MI6 and is unwillingly recruited as “Our Man in Havana”. As...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
When the Japanese invaded Malaya during the Second World War, it seemed that John Davis service in the country had come to an end. But nothing could have been further from the truth. Davis switched from the Federated Malay...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): World War II
From the bestselling author of M, this is the fascinating and lively history of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring the USA into the Second World War. William Stephenson...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Boston
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
- Era(s): The near future
‘Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere took off (and became a Reese Witherspoon-helmed TV show). Now she’s back with a politically charged tale of 12-year-old Bird Gardner, a Chinese-American child growing up in a dystopian America where difference is being stamped out’ The...
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
- Location(s): Kashmir
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority within a Muslim majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly agitated...
- Location(s): Washington State
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Late 19th century
It isn′t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it′s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May...
- Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts), Portsmouth (New Hampshire)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Revolutionary War
A love affair tests a new nation’s revolutionary ideals. In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant’s daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life—until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fifteen-year-old Aki Simon has a theory. And it’s mostly about sex. No, it isn’t that kind of theory. Aki already knows she’s bisexual–even if, until now, it’s mostly been in the hypothetical sense. Aki’s theory is that she’s only...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
It was the perfect trip, until it ended in murder… I stand on the balcony with my gorgeous husband, Reuben, by my side. My family have returned to this beautiful French hotel to celebrate my mother’s seventieth birthday. The...
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