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The Ghostwriter’s Study

The Ghostwriter’s Study
  • Author(s): Julie Highmore
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Private investigator Edie Fox gets a very novel assignment… Concerned that the live-in carers are stealing from his eccentric older sister, Dylan McCrimmon asks Edie Fox to keep an eye on her affairs. Given that Suzie led a colourful...

The Giant

The Giant
  • Author(s): Laura Morelli
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1500s

As a colossal statue takes shape in Renaissance Florence, the lives of a master sculptor and a struggling painter become stunningly intertwined. Florence, 1500. Fresco painter Jacopo Torni longs to make his mark in the world. But while his...

The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased)

The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased)
  • Author(s): Marie Gameson
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Winifred Rigby is proud of having no memory – an achievement she attributes to years of Buddhist meditation (and a profound epiphany on a mountain in Taiwan). Determined to get the old Winnie back, her staunchly Catholic mother and...

The Gift of the Magi

The Gift of the Magi
  • Author(s): O Henry
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): turn of 20th century

One dollar and eighty-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure–her long, beautiful brown hair. Set in New York at...

The Gilded Beaver

The Gilded Beaver
  • Author(s): Margaret Lindsay Holton
  • Location(s): Hamilton, Muskoka, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Winner of the Hamilton Book Awards, 1999. What happens when a talented and up-and-coming Canadian fine furniture female designer, Iris, accepts a mysterious commission from a enigmatic and eccentric billionaire from Toronto who says he wants “good chairs”? The...

The Gilded Ones

The Gilded Ones
  • Author(s): Namina Forna
  • Location(s): West Africa
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy
  • Era(s): N/A

The must-read epic fantasy of 2021, as featured on Cosmo, Buzzfeed, BookRiot and Refinery 29. In this West African-inspired world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice, perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and...

The GILDED TREASON – An Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller

The GILDED TREASON – An Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller
  • Author(s): Urcelia Teixeira
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

ALEX HUNT and SAM QUINN are back for another Action-packed Archaeological Adventure! This time, in the Cambodian jungle! Finding the golden urn was supposed to be easy. Nothing the skilled Alex Hunt and Sam Quinn haven’t done before. But...

The Gin Sisters’ Promise

The Gin Sisters’ Promise
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together. When Georgie, Iris and Nola’s mother died and their father disappeared into his grief, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another, no matter what....

The Girl and the Sunbird

The Girl and the Sunbird
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stonehill
  • Location(s): Nairobi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1903 and 1953

A haunting, heartbreaking and unforgettable novel of a woman married to a man she can never love, and drawn to another who will capture her heart forever… When eighteen year old Iris Johnson is forced to choose between marrying...

The Girl and the Tiger

The Girl and the Tiger
  • Author(s): Paul Rosolie
  • Location(s): Karnataka, Western Ghats
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Isha is a girl who loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has...

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