- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Please note this was originally published as Nemesis of the Dead. Detective Inspector Jack Dawes Mystery Book 1 SOMEONE’S POISONING PARADISE. Detective Inspector Jack Dawes and his bride, Corrie, join eight other holidaymakers bound for a tiny Greek island,...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th century
As every reader of Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, and especially the islands of Greece. This captivating and highly unusual text, originally conceived as a picture book and now reset in...
- Location(s): The Peloponnese
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Isla’s not looking for love on her sabbatical in gorgeous rural Greece. She longs for a sunny lifestyle to revive her health and happiness after a road accident and a car crash of a relationship. Her clifftop villa and...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder, human trafficking into Greece, and about the corruption surrounding...
- Location(s): Riyadh
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the vein of Year of the Dog and The Higher Power of Lucky, this Middle Eastern coming-of-age story is told with warmth, spirit, and a mischievous sense of humor. Spunky eleven-year-old Wadjda lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with...
- Location(s): Latvia
- Genre(s): Fiction
Institutionalized in an asylum, a woman with a record of hallucinations commits her life story to paper. She records, from the age of six, her earliest memories of a drunken and abusive father, the strange men her mother introduced...
- Location(s): New Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
A heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the war–winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. It’s 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father....
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Accompanying a brand-new BBC series presented by David Attenborough. This is our Green Planet: a hidden world where plants care for other plants and can smell, taste, touch, hear and even . . . ‘talk’. In the world of...
- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1900
How far would she go to save her marriage? How far would he go to keep a promise? 1900. Eighteen-year old Hephzibah Wildman, homeless and destitute after the tragic death of her parents, becomes a governess at Ingleton Hall....
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion – a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. The...
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