- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A joyously satisfying will-they-won’t-they love story about a young woman finding her feet and forging her own destiny, set against the backdrop of the Trinidadian beauty industry. Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian high...
- Location(s): Adirondacks
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the family deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Current Day
When seventeen-year-old Alicia turns up on her godmother’s doorstep and asks if she can stay, Carina can’t say no to the godchild she hasn’t seen in over a decade. In a way, Alicia is the daughter she always wanted....
- Location(s): India, Windsor
- Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
- Era(s): 19th Century
A beguiling novel of Victorian theft and obsession from the bestselling author of THE SOMNAMBULIST. Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their...
- Location(s): Warsaw, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 2000s
Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux – 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen… and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1845
1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever… Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): post WW1
There are very few major European poets of the early twentieth century not already known to English-language audiences, but Srecko Kosovel is one. Often called the Slovene Rimbaud (he died at twenty-two, leaving almost 1,000 poems), the full range...
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 3000 BC
5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa’s father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Valentina the emperor’s daughter is an obsessive collector of exotic birds. Her servants track down every bird she desires – just one remains unfound: a bird that talks. Servants search far and wide to fulfill her impossible quest –...
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