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The House With No Rooms

The House With No Rooms
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Kew, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1976

KEW: The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl, dizzied by the heat, thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened...

The House with the Golden Door

The House with the Golden Door
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre 79AD

Wolf Den Trilogy, Book 2 Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town’s most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as...

The House without a Key

The House without a Key
  • Author(s): Earl Derr Biggers
  • Location(s): Honolulu
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

When Bostonian John Quincy Winterslip is sent to Hawaii to retrieve his elderly Aunt Minerva, fully expects to return home quickly. Uncle Dan, however is murdered and Charlie Chan investigates.

The Housekeeper and the Professor

The Housekeeper and the Professor
  • Author(s): Yoko Ogawa
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar...

The Human Flies

The Human Flies
  • Author(s): Hans Olav Lahlum
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1960s

Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first...

The Hundred Wells of Salaga

The Hundred Wells of Salaga
  • Author(s): Ayesha Harruna Attah
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play...

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): Paris, French Alps, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through...

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
  • Author(s): Jonas Jonasson
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn’t want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there....

The Hunger

The Hunger
  • Author(s): Alma Katsu
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Horror
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

“Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark.” – Stephen King After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make...

The Hunger Within

The Hunger Within
  • Author(s): J M Hewitt
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1981

Northern Ireland, 1981 The Troubles are tearing apart the country. Neighbour turns on neighbour as the Catholic/Protestant divide rages on. In Maze Prison, a group of men start a hunger strike, wanting to be recognised as political prisoners. On...

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