- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Fourteenth century
A young nation in peril. A web of deception. A triangle of forbidden love. The year is 1315. The fledgling nation of Switzerland – the Confederation Helvetica – is under threat from the Habsburgs. In France, the Knights Templar...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six—an entrancing novel “that speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all” (Kirkus Reviews), in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top...
- Location(s): Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told...
The Seventh Scroll (Egyptian series)
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 2000BC
A fading papyrus, nearly four thousand years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time . . . a riddle that becomes a savage battle across the unforgiving terrain of North Africa....
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
‘Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn’t exist’. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In...
- 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...










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