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The Arctic Curry Club

The Arctic Curry Club
  • Author(s): Dani Redd
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For my whole life I had been looking for home. But why would that be in a place that I’d left? Perhaps I had to keep moving forward in order to find it…’ Soon after upending her life to...

The Arctic Fury

The Arctic Fury
  • Author(s): Greer Macallister
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition–and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don’t come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into...

The Ares Decision

The Ares Decision
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group—Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale...

The Armies

The Armies
  • Author(s): Evelio Rosero
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden. Returning from a walk one morning...

The Arms Maker of Berlin

The Arms Maker of Berlin
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A ruthless arms billionaire and a disgraced history professor share a terrible secret. Nat Turnbull is dragged abruptly from his quiet academic life when his former mentor Professor Gordon Wolfe is arrested for stealing top secret archive documents dating...

The Arrangement

The Arrangement
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

When Grace’s daughter Abi is murdered on a dream vacation, her world shatters. As grief consumes her, Grace uncovers shocking secrets about Abi’s life in the UK — the designer clothes, the trips to London, the lies. But someone...

The Art of a Lie

The Art of a Lie
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1749

London, 1749 Hannah Cole’s world shatters following her husband’s brutal murder. Her confectionary shop, the Punchbowl and Pineapple, teeters on the brink of ruin. Just as she uncovers a hidden fortune―money her husband secretly possessed―a new nightmare begins. Magistrate...

The Art of Becoming Homeless #5

The Art of Becoming Homeless #5
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michelle has always had a positive attitude to work and responsibility and has made all the ‘right’ choices. Why then does she feel she might have ended up in the wrong place? Disenchanted with life as a high-flying lawyer...

The Art of Deception

The Art of Deception
  • Author(s): Liz Harris
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jenny O’Connor can hardly believe her luck when she’s hired to teach summer art classes in Italy. Whilst the prospect of sun, sightseeing and Italian food is hard to resist, Jenny’s far more interested in her soon-to-be boss, Max...

The Art of Dying

The Art of Dying
  • Author(s): Ambrose Parry
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1850

Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson...

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