- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers -Anna and Andrei, Anna’s novelist father and banned actress Marina...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twenty-seven-year-old Detective Reiko Himekawa has an impressive ability to solve crimes. When a gruesomely slaughtered body wrapped in plastic is discovered, Reiko soon uncovers eleven other murders with a similar ‘signature’ and a reference to something called ‘strawberry night’,...
- Location(s): New Hampshire, Vermont
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The Silent Girls is an engrossing and dark psychological thriller that follows private investigator Frank Rath’s investigation into a string of mysterious disappearances of teenage girls during the dead of winter in the rural town of Canaan, Vermont. Chilling...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 60s70s AD
A series of detective stories featuring Marcus Didius Falco. A strong plot and likeable character in this, the first of the Falco historical novels.
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet,...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
One September, the writer and explorer Peter Matthiessen set out with field biologist George Schaller to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Soul Breaker doesn’t kill his victims. What he does is much worse. He leaves them paralysed and completely catatonic. His only trace: a note left in their hands. There are three known victims when suddenly the abductions stop....
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1990s
First in a quartet. When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched...










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