The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
This is the magical tale of Edith Lane, who sets off to find her fortune in the beautiful city of Paris. Fortune, however, is a fickle thing and Edith ends up working in a vintage bakery in the positively...
The Mystery Of Haverford House
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1920s - Mid 1930s and 2003
A captivating and moving tale of love, the true meaning of home, and the haunting secrets that can bind generations. 1933. Annie Bishop is sixteen years old when she first climbs the steps of Haverford House ready to take...
- Location(s): Clapham, Berlin, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post World War Two
As the Second World War draws to a close, Gus Clifton, having been working with the interrogation teams in Germany and out of touch with his family, surprises his sisters at their home. But an even greater shock is...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to...
- Location(s): Australia, Oceania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): 2013 - 2022
Taking the reader on a journey through love, faith, death, grief, family and dreams, “The Night Fisher Elegies” weaves together powerful explorations of humanism, moments of reflection that are tinged with melancholy, and short verses that inhabit the sometimes...
- Location(s): Linden, New Jersey
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1999 and 2015
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in Linden, New...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), London, Sussex
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia at, of all places, a luxurious condominium overlooking a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course. The purpose of this summit meeting of terrorists was...
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
“There is no problem so great it cannot be solved by a cup of bush tea.” The prolific Alexander McCall Smith is the undisputed king of cosy crime, the antithesis of the much-touted Tartan Noir movement. His Precious Ramotswe...
- Location(s): Africa, Sahara
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Turn of 20thCentury
Born to Russian emigres and brought up in an atmosphere of intellectual and aristocratic anachism, in her short life Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and a representative of everything that seemed dangerous in...
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