- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): late 19th century
A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway’s northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast forest, Glahn pursues his solitary existence, hunting and fishing, until the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Georgian Era, 1799
‘Weaves together Ancient Greek myth with suspenseful mystery and beguiling romance…utterly irresistible’ Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne A pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary with flashbacks
Lisa and Mark are going through a rough patch, Vicky is seventeen and has just discovered that the man she thought was her father really isn’t, Ruth is getting over her husband’s betrayal after nearly twenty-five years of marriage....
- Location(s): Corfu
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th century
First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1947
In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity. Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A daring dog takes a whirlwind tour of Rome in search of freedom in new picture book from beloved storyteller Mac Barnett and masterful illustrator Claire Keane Paolo the dachshund is trapped. Though he lives in Rome, a city...
- Location(s): Masterton
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Masterton, New Zealand may be a small town, but its residents are certainly not united. Old resentments and the simmering tensions of race and culture divide the Maori and white inhabitants, with everyone keeping to their own patch of...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH… Lucy Golden is a true-crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult. Twenty years later, still coasting on the success of the memoir she wrote...
- Location(s): Moucha Island
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2015
How quickly can The Nation’s Sweetheart become Enemy Of The State ? Talking WIth Tiffany is England’s favourite morning programme and Tiffany Wilson the Nation’s sweetheart. All indications are that Tiffany’s tellysphere crown is about to be confirmed as...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
BOOKS. BOMBAY. ROMANCE. When her estranged father passes away, Fiza, fresh out of college, discovers that he has left her a tidy sum in the hope that she will open a bookshop… Overnight, Fiza’s placid life is thrown into...
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