The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
Different from the Arab countries of the Middle East, Lebanon is a pluralistic society – 18 religious sects, a large minority of Christians. It is often seen as a ‘message’ to the possibility of Arab democratization, but it has...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Rome Escape Line #2 February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
For fourteen years, since the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, it has been just the two of them – Eva and her beloved grandmother Millie, and they have forged a seemingly unbreakable bond. Now...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
Private investigator Edie Fox gets a very novel assignment… Concerned that the live-in carers are stealing from his eccentric older sister, Dylan McCrimmon asks Edie Fox to keep an eye on her affairs. Given that Suzie led a colourful...
- Location(s): London, Fuengirola, Norway, Thailand
- Genre(s): Horror
- Era(s): Contemporary
When London banker Frank marries Joy, a spirited young Thai woman with dreams of sun-soaked Spain, a borrowed apartment in Fuengirola seems like the perfect wedding gift. But this quiet street on the Costa del Sol — Calle Goya...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1500s
As a colossal statue takes shape in Renaissance Florence, the lives of a master sculptor and a struggling painter become stunningly intertwined. Florence, 1500. Fresco painter Jacopo Torni longs to make his mark in the world. But while his...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
Easy money has a bitter price for an unusual crime-solving duo Father and daughter private investigator team Sidney and Ursula Valentine are bored out of their wits surveying potholes in Belfast when they land a job from a woman...
The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased)
- Location(s): United Kingdom, China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Current
Winifred Rigby is proud of having no memory – an achievement she attributes to years of Buddhist meditation (and a profound epiphany on a mountain in Taiwan). Determined to get the old Winnie back, her staunchly Catholic mother and...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): turn of 20th century
One dollar and eighty-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure–her long, beautiful brown hair. Set in New York at...
- Location(s): Hamilton, Muskoka, Toronto
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Winner of the Hamilton Book Awards, 1999. What happens when a talented and up-and-coming Canadian fine furniture female designer, Iris, accepts a mysterious commission from a enigmatic and eccentric billionaire from Toronto who says he wants “good chairs”? The...
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