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The American Boyfriend

The American Boyfriend
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Phoebe Wong would do anything to escape a British winter. But it may cost her more than her airfare. Sunsets, tacos and margaritas all sound perfect to exhausted forty-three-year-old single mum Phoebe with a dead-end job in Southwark. When...

The American Girl

The American Girl
  • Author(s): Rachael English
  • Location(s): Dublin, Boston, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s nd 2013

From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O’Farrell comes an unforgettable new novel . . . Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited – and pregnant. She wants to marry...

The Amsterdam Affair

The Amsterdam Affair
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new start, a chance encounter, a Christmas to remember. Will Iris’s new year be happy ever after? When Iris Greene’s boyfriend surprises her with a romantic dinner at their favourite restaurant, she’s expecting a proposal, not a move...

The Amsterdam Chronicles: Def-Con City Part 1

The Amsterdam Chronicles: Def-Con City Part 1
  • Author(s): Brian Christopher
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

New York homicide detective Harvey Wall was more than pleased when his captain suggested he go on a six month exchange program with the Dutch police in Amsterdam. The benefits were obvious; firstly, he was out of sight of...

The Amusements

The Amusements
  • Author(s): Aingeala Flannery
  • Location(s): County Waterford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the resort town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods at the seaside amusements. Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent to the charm of her surroundings;...

The Anarchy

The Anarchy
  • Author(s): William Dalrymple
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1765 onwards

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army –...

The Anatomy Lesson

The Anatomy Lesson
  • Author(s): Nina Siegal
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1630s

Commissioned by a prominent Amsterdam medical guild, The Anatomical Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was one of Rembrandt’s first paintings to gain public notice. The novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection, and, as they prepare for...

The Ancient Evil Versus the Good Boy

The Ancient Evil Versus the Good Boy
  • Author(s): Zachary Finn
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jon Riley begins volunteering at the Richter Street Animal Shelter, he hopes it will help bring some purpose to his life. After all, who doesn’t like hanging out with a few dogs after a tough day at work?...

The Ancient Garden

The Ancient Garden
  • Author(s): Hwang Sok-yong
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Oh Hyun Woo, a political activist, has served nearly twenty years of a life sentence, but when the Korean government relaxes its stance on such dissidents, he finds himself up for release. While he was growing old on the...

The Andalucian Friend

The Andalucian Friend
  • Author(s): Alexander Soderberg, Neil Smith (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, she knows everything that she needs to: he’s handsome, he’s charming and he makes her happy. But what she doesn’t know is that Hector has some nasty friends, some even nastier enemies, and...

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