- Location(s): Algeria, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Humour
- Era(s): 1930s
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
In February, 1922, at the western-most entrance to Victoria Station in Manchester, a massive plaque was unveiled. Beneath a vast tiled map showing the lines of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network, a series of seven bronze panels recorded...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
International thriller from renowned political journalist Adam LeBor, taking us behind the scenes in the corridors of power. UN covert negotiator, Yael Azoulay, has been sent to Reykjavik to broker a secret meeting between US President Freshwater and the...
The Ribbons are for Fearlessness
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It’s about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether you’re afraid or not… Courage is about being who you are with your whole heart.’ Fuzzy-haired, neurotic, cello-playing Catrina...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Mystery
Constable Sam Shephard has moved to Dunedin to begin training as a detective in the police force. Sidelined from a murder investigation, Sam is assigned duties as peacekeeper between a visiting circus and animal-rights protestors. After a university student...
- Location(s): Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Tucked away in a remote part of Africa, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso, three of the world’s poorest countries, are in the throes of great upheaval. Globalisation has shown their people that a more comfortable life is possible,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daugher and his outrageous friend Rudi who – dreaming of the wealthy West – lives...
- Location(s): South Tyneside, The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
FROM THE SHADOWS INTO THE LIGHT… When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1960s/70s and 2017
The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling summer novel by Karen Swan. 1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020s
As I stood on the terrace and gazed out over the most glorious view, he studied my face and said to me ‘Why do you look sad? No-one should be sad in Rome. We only have this one life,...
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