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The Stolen Girl

The Stolen Girl
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), London, Udupi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

‘Your mother has been arrested. She stole you.’ For as long as thirteen-year-old Diya can remember, it’s always been just her and her mum, Vani. Despite never staying in one place long enough to call it home, with her...

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s, Modern

Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...

The Street Party

The Street Party
  • Author(s): Claire Seeber
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The party was supposed to be the highlight of the summer. If only I’d known that night would destroy our lives… All the neighbours were laughing, drinking out of plastic glasses and getting along. I almost felt happy. Almost...

The Summer of France

The Summer of France
  • Author(s): Paulita Kincer
  • Location(s): France, Provence, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Fia Jennings loses her job at the local newspaper, she thinks she’ll have the chance to bond with her teenage twins. As she realizes she may be too late to create the perfect family, she’s saved by a...

The Sun In Her Eyes

The Sun In Her Eyes
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Amber was three when a car crash stole her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the accident, but a stranger at the scene has been unable to forget. Now, almost thirty years later, she’s trying to track Amber down. Amber,...

The Sunlit Night

The Sunlit Night
  • Author(s): Rebecca Dinerstein
  • Location(s): Lofoten
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances and Yasha are surprised to find refuge in each other. Their lives have been upended – Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manhattan for...

The Tale Of Murasaki

The Tale Of Murasaki
  • Author(s): Liza Dalby
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th Century

In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress,...

The Tenants of Moonbloom

The Tenants of Moonbloom
  • Author(s): Edward Lewis Wallant
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/70 and early 2000s

Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can’t even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom...

The Time In Between

The Time In Between
  • Author(s): Marcello Fois, Silvester Mazzarella (translator)
  • Location(s): Nuoro, Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943 - 1978

Vincenzo Chironi sets foot for the first time on the island of Sardinia – ‘a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean’ – in 1943, a year of famine and malaria. All he has with him is an old...

The Tobacconist

The Tobacconist
  • Author(s): Robert Seethaler
  • Location(s): Austria, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s towards WW2

When seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist...

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