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Court of Lions

Court of Lions
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 15th Century

Kate Fordham, escaping terrible trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada, the ancient capital of the Moors in Spain, where she is scraping by with an unfulfilling job in a busy bar. One day in the...

Red Snow – (Tuva 2)

Red Snow – (Tuva 2)
  • Author(s): Will Dean
  • Location(s): Värmland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

TWO BODIES One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who’s really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik? TWO COINS Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man’s eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to...

After the Fall

After the Fall
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): Hawke's Bay, Napier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the quiet of a New Zealand winter’s night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He’s fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At...

And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed
  • Author(s): Khaled Hosseini
  • Location(s): Kabul, Paris, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one… Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of...

Baptism

Baptism
  • Author(s): Max Kinnings
  • Location(s): England, London, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a...

Flying with Kites

Flying with Kites
  • Author(s): Alan Reynolds
  • Location(s): Gateshead, Kosovo, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Recent

When you have lost everything, how far would you go?What would you do to protect your child? The war in Kosovo has already been relegated to the history books but in Flying with Kites, Alan Reynolds reminds us of...

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): Delft
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1660s / 1676

An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist’s desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. 17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer...

The Drago Tree

The Drago Tree
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Lanzarote
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Haunted by demons past and present, geologist Ann Salter seeks sanctuary on the exotic island of Lanzarote. There she meets charismatic author Richard Parry and indigenous potter Domingo, and together they explore the island. Ann’s encounters with the island’s...

The Little Theatre By The Sea

The Little Theatre By The Sea
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna), Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Faye has just completed her degree in interior design when she finds herself jobless and boyfriend-less. While debating what to do next she receives a surprise phone call from her old college friend Charlotte who now lives in Sardinia...

The Lover’s Portrait

The Lover’s Portrait
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary/WW2

When a homosexual Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam,...

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