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The Ghosts of Summer

The Ghosts of Summer
  • Author(s): Alex J Milan
  • 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...

The Ghostwriter’s Study

The Ghostwriter’s Study
  • Author(s): Julie Highmore
  • 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...

The Ghouls of Calle Goya

The Ghouls of Calle Goya
  • Author(s): Owen Jones
  • 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...

The Giant

The Giant
  • Author(s): Laura Morelli
  • 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...

The Giant’s Causeway Murders

The Giant’s Causeway Murders
  • Author(s): Robert McCracken
  • 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)

The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased)
  • Author(s): Marie Gameson
  • 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...

The Gift of the Magi

The Gift of the Magi
  • Author(s): O Henry
  • 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...

The Gilded Beaver

The Gilded Beaver
  • Author(s): Margaret Lindsay Holton
  • 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...

The Gilded Cage

The Gilded Cage
  • Author(s): Luisa A Jones
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWI

Lady Rosamund Fitznorton, trapped in an arranged marriage to the cruel Sir Lucien, finds herself drawn to his new chauffeur, Joseph. One man holds her captive and the other offers a hope of escape… but who really holds the...

The Gilded Ones

The Gilded Ones
  • Author(s): Namina Forna
  • Location(s): West Africa
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy
  • Era(s): N/A

The must-read epic fantasy of 2021, as featured on Cosmo, Buzzfeed, BookRiot and Refinery 29. In this West African-inspired world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice, perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and...

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