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The Gathering

The Gathering
  • Author(s): C J Tudor
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A small Alaskan town. A missing boy. A brutal murder. A detective brought in from out of state to assist the former sherriff who investigated a similar murder twenty-five years ago. But are they hunting a twisted psychopath –...

The Gathering Night

The Gathering Night
  • Author(s): Margaret Elphinstone
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mesolithic Period

Between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea, Alaia and her family live off the land. But when her brother goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balance of life is upset. Half-starved and maddened with grief, Alaia’s mother follows...

The Gaudí key

The Gaudí key
  • Author(s): Esteban Martín
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Early Twentieth Century

In the early twentieth century, when Barcelona was celebrated as the center of modernist art and design, the grand master of an ancient religious brotherhood prepares to die – passing the care of a sacred relic to a prominent...

The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath

The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath
  • Author(s): Ian Green
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): The Middle Ages

Fight the Storm. Protect your people. The endless rotstorm rages over the ruins of the Ferron Empire. Floré would never let the slavers of the Empire rise again. As a warrior of the Stormguard Commandos, she wrought horrors in...

The Gaze

The Gaze
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A beautiful and compelling novel, Elif Shafak’s The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others “I didn’t say anything. I didn’t return his smiles. I looked at him in the...

The Gemini Contenders

The Gemini Contenders
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Italy, Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Under cover of darkness, in Salonika, Greece, December 1939 an order of monks endeavours to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The contents hidden for years could blow apart the Christian world....

The Generosity of Strangers

The Generosity of Strangers
  • Author(s): Thomas Antonaccio, Morwenna Rakestraw (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Fornelli
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s

The Generosity of Strangers: When War Came to Fornelli is written in first person, free verse, and consists of a series of vignettes chronicling the real life experiences of a young girl and her family in war-torn Italy in...

The Gentleman from Peru

The Gentleman from Peru
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can’t help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest – a...

The Gentleman’s Gambit

The Gentleman’s Gambit
  • Author(s): Evie Dunmore
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: an ailing estate, academic writer’s block, a tense time for England’s women’s rights campaign – the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive young colleague....

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
  • Author(s): Mackenzi Lee
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Current

A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age written by This Monstrous Thing author Mackenzi Lee—Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s....

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