- Location(s): Biloxi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Sunday Times No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side....
- Location(s): Washington State
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an...
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
- Location(s): Odense, Aalborg, Nyborg
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1940s, Second World War, World War II
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation’s leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the...
- Location(s): County Wicklow, Moscow, Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970's Ireland, wartime France, pre-revolutionary Russia
‘An intelligent and atmospheric thriller… An accomplished debut.’ Thomas Waugh Wicklow, 1976. The dramatic death of Countess Irina Bratinsky, a well-connected dealer in Fabergé jewellery, becomes international news. But why are the Irish, French and Russian police so interested...
- Location(s): England, France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
A moving and emotional family drama set between France and Britain from bestselling author, Mary Wood. They would fight for their country, at all costs . . . When Sibbie and Marjie arrive at RAF Digby, they are about...
- Location(s): Ibiza
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Following a sensational scandal at one of London’s most desired postcodes, Jane and Patrick decide to escape the gossip with a family holiday to Ibiza, their eight-year-old son George in tow. Also on the island that week is a...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s-1990s
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty: Determined to honor her late husband’s final request, Judith and her teenage step-daughter, Rosa, set out on a journey from London to Brazil to track down his family and take his...
- Location(s): Akaroa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 2000
Nobody’s Perfect Are They? Rebecca Loughton’s bumbled her way through her thirty-something years making a few cock-ups along the way. Of course, these wouldn’t be so obvious if it wasn’t for her golden haired, older sister Jennifer. In a...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A riveting memoir about one woman’s journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning. When Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and...
- Location(s): Port au Prince
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she’s covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with...
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