The Bachelor and the Butterfly
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Present day
A delicately crafted and charming romance about two friends who find love in Tuscany and beyond. Michael is tired of playing the field and wants to find the right girl, someone he knows the instant he meets her that...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten. On a remote island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friends–Tilly, Anna,...
The Backpacking Housewife – The Next Adventure (Book 2)
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Romance, Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
They say home is really where the heart is… Lori Anderson should be bursting with happiness. Since leaving behind her life as a housewife to embark on an incredible backpacking adventure she’s met a man she’s fallen head over...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Commit a sin and you’ll go to the Bad Fire… That’s what Eddie Mallon was told when he was growing up in Glasgow. Now he’s about to discover that even after all these years, the fire never goes out....
- Location(s): Tunisia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Translated from the award-winning French novel La mauvaise mère, prolific author Marguerite Andersen fictionalizes the important moments of her life resulting in this unflinching account of her relationship with her three children and her years spent following her caprices...
- Location(s): East Anglia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present/Fifteen years earlier
Alex Devlin’s life changed forever fifteen years ago when her sister Sasha’s two small children were snatched in broad daylight. Little Harry’s body was found a few days later, but Millie’s remains were never discovered. Now Jackie Wood, jailed...
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
- Location(s): Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2012
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven and Indiana Jones. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library,...
The Baddest Girl on the Planet
- Location(s): Hatteras Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours—career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child—not to mention...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1991
Longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Displaced by the sectarian violence in the city, Maha and her husband are taken in by a distant cousin, Youssef. As the growing turmoil around them seeps into their household, a rare argument breaks out between the elderly Youssef...
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