- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day...
- Location(s): London, Lausanne, Montreux
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1976 - 2016
You only get one life – but what if it isn’t the one you were meant to live? When Jessica discovers a shocking secret about her birth, she leaves her London home and travels to Switzerland in search of...
- Location(s): Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Serbia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s and Early 1900s
Historical fiction that presents a “what if” theory about the amount of involvement that Albert Einstein’s first wife (also a physicist) had in some of his most significant scientific contributions.
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and...
- Location(s): Derby, Lake Garda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Present looking back
One year ago, Leah’s twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, returning to Italy for the first time since Amy’s death, Leah is shocked to find her family seem...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laila and her husband arrive for a week’s holiday in Greece in desperate need of a reset. As Laila sits by the pool she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the other family staying in their resort. Em has no...
The Other Half of Augusta Hope
- Location(s): Burundi, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she’s an adult, Augusta has no...
- Location(s): Aleppo, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Consistently receiving 5-star ratings, The Other Half of My Soul; is a gripping story about an American-born Syrian Jew from Brooklyn and a Syrian-born Shi-ite Muslim from Aleppo. The book raises profound questions about personal choices, commitments, responsibility, and...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
You want to be one of them. Until you know them. Ex-journalist Tash has been searching for a story to launch her freelance career. But she has also been searching for something else: new friends to help her navigate...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway,...
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