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The End of the Valley: Part 1 of The Valley Trilogy

The End of the Valley: Part 1 of The Valley Trilogy
  • Author(s): J D Ferguson
  • Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bernese Oberland, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980’s / present day

1984: Kate is the golden girl of British ski racing and a leading gold medal hope for the Sarajevo Winter Olympics until a serious knee injury shatters the dream. 2012: Kate is now one of the country’s leading chefs...

The End of the Vodka

The End of the Vodka
  • Author(s): Oscar de Muriel
  • Location(s): Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A Frida Kahlo painting, a scandal, and secrets that threaten to change the course of history In 1938, showgirl-turned-socialite Dorothy Hale falls from a Manhattan skyscraper. Her friend Clare Boothe Luce – writer, diplomat and rising political figure –...

The End of Us

The End of Us
  • Author(s): Olivia Kiernan
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It all started to go wrong the day the Wrights moved in next door Myles and Lana Butler live on a gorgeous new development in Wimbledon, leaning on a mortgage that is just within reach. When one of Myles’...

The End We Start From

The End We Start From
  • Author(s): Megan Hunter
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Future, Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Future

Megan Hunter’s honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling apart around them and its people are forced to become refugees, this family’s world – of new life...

The End. And Again.

The End. And Again.
  • Author(s): Dino Bauk
  • Location(s): Ljubljana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The End. And Again. offers a beguiling, imaginative reworking of the history of the independence of Slovenia and the breakdown of Yugoslavia. Opening in early 1990s Ljubljana, the novel is told through the reminiscences of embittered bureaucrat Peter, corrupt...

The Ending Writes Itself

The Ending Writes Itself
  • Author(s): Evelyn Clarke
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

V. E. Schwab and Cat Clarke team up to pen a locked-room mystery satirizing the publishing industry. Six authors have been invited to the private Scottish island of bestselling author Arthur Fletch. At arrival, they learn that Arthur is...

The Enemy (Jack Reacher 8)

The Enemy (Jack Reacher 8)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990

North Carolina. New Year’s Day, 1990. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is the officer on duty. The soldier turns out to be a two-star general. The situation is bad enough, then Reacher...

The Engineer’s Wife

The Engineer’s Wife
  • Author(s): Tracey Enerson Wood
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800’s

Based on the true story of Emily Warren Roebling, whose life is transformed when she must complete her husband’s magnum opus—the Brooklyn Bridge, a project of unthinkable scale that takes her into the bowels of the East River, suffragette...

The English Assassin

The English Assassin
  • Author(s): Gabriel Silva
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

The English Girl

The English Girl
  • Author(s): Katherine Webb
  • Location(s): Oman
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

In a land full of secrets, you can make your own rules. Joan Seabrook has fulfilled her lifelong dream to travel to Arabia and has arrived in the ancient city of Muscat with her fiancé, Rory. Desperate to escape...

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