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The Bookseller

The Bookseller
  • Author(s): Tim Sullivan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE SETTING When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such...

The Bookseller of Florence

The Bookseller of Florence
  • Author(s): Ross King
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Renaissance

The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings – the dazzling handiwork of the city’s artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers. At a...

The Bookseller of Kabul

The Bookseller of Kabul
  • Author(s): Åsne Seierstad
  • Location(s): Kabul
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘A remarkable portrait, with deftly woven accounts of weddings and journeys, books and bookselling, relations and squabbles, firmly anchored by pleasing details about food and customs, all set against the backdrop of a derelict city.

The Bookseller’s Secret

The Bookseller’s Secret
  • Author(s): Michelle Gable
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

ARISTOCRAT, AUTHOR, BOOKSELLER, WWII SPY–A THRILLING NOVEL ABOUT REAL-LIFE LITERARY ICON NANCY MITFORD In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young...

The Bookseller’s Wife

The Bookseller’s Wife
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Georgian

London, 1775. Books have always been Dorcas Turton’s refuge—but now they may be her salvation. The only surviving child of six, Dorcas should have inherited security and status. But after her mother’s untimely death, she is stunned by the...

The Bookshop at Water’s End

The Bookshop at Water’s End
  • Author(s): Patti Callahan Henry
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th / early 21st centuries

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it… Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with...

The Bookshop by the Bay

The Bookshop by the Bay
  • Author(s): Pamela M Kelley
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

TWO LIFELONG FRIENDS. Jess loves her work as a high-profile lawyer in Charleston. But when her marriage implodes, she retreats to her childhood home on Cape Cod with her thirty-year-old daughter, Caitlin, hoping to regroup with her longtime best...

The Bookshop Detective

The Bookshop Detective
  • Author(s): Jan Ellis
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a ghost ship is spotted on the horizon one spring evening, bookseller Eleanor Mace decides to investigate the myths and legends of Combemouth, the Devon seaside town where she runs The Reading Room. As Eleanor digs deeper into...

The Bookshop Ladies

The Bookshop Ladies
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bestselling Irish writer, Faith Hogan, has created another gripping saga of friendship, betrayal and secrets in this story of a widow in search of answers to a shocking confession by her dying husband. Joy Blackwood has no idea why...

The Bookshop of New Beginnings

The Bookshop of New Beginnings
  • Author(s): Jen Mouat
  • Location(s): Wigtown
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s always been Emily Cotton’s dream to own her own bookshop. But sitting among shelves of haphazardly stacked books in a damp old barn, the reality feels a little different. Kate Vincent hasn’t been back home in six years....

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