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The Heatwave

The Heatwave
  • Author(s): Kate Riordan
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s - 1990s

Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in Provence, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a sweltering...

The Trader of Saigon

The Trader of Saigon
  • Author(s): Lucy Cruickshanks
  • Location(s): Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

From Hanoi to Saigon, a tale of one woman’s search for a better life – and a thriller that strikes to the merciless heart of post-civil war Vietnam. In the chaos and corruption of 1980s’ Vietnam, three seemingly unconnected...

The View from the Tower

The View from the Tower
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Rome, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2004 and 1978

“Can she trust them? Can you?” A psychological thriller about love and betrayal, and the damage done when ideals and human lives come into conflict. Helen is in a hotel room with her lover when a gunman murders her...

Under the Italian Sun

Under the Italian Sun
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A sun-baked terrace. The rustle of vines. And the clink of wine glasses as the first cork of the evening is popped… Welcome to Italy. A place that holds the answer to Zia-Lucia Costa Chalmers’ many questions. Not least,...

Wolfsangel

Wolfsangel
  • Author(s): Liza Perrat
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Seven decades after German troops march into her village, Céleste Roussel is still unable to assuage her guilt. 1943. German soldiers occupy provincial Lucie-sur-Vionne, and as the villagers pursue treacherous schemes to deceive and swindle the enemy, Céleste embarks...

Monument to Murder (Kate Daniels 4)

Monument to Murder (Kate Daniels 4)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Bamburgh, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When skeletal remains are found beneath the fortified walls of an ancient castle on Northumberland’s rugged coastline, DCI Kate Daniels calls on a forensic anthropologist to help identify the corpse. Meanwhile, newly widowed prison psychologist Emily McCann finds herself...

To Tuscany With Love

To Tuscany With Love
  • Author(s): Gail Mencini
  • Location(s): Tuscany, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

A group of young people come together in Tuscany for their studies. Each has a backstory, and relationships develop and grow. They return to their homes in the USA and then an invitation arrives for each of them to...

1989 The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall)

1989 The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall)
  • Author(s): Peter Millar
  • Location(s): Berlin, Germany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

1989: The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall) It was an event that changed history, bringing the Cold War to a sudden, unexpected end and seeing the collapse not just of Communism but of the Soviet Union itself....

533: A Book of Days

533: A Book of Days
  • Author(s): Cees Nooteboom
  • Location(s): Sant Lluís
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, “the island of the wind”, and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and...

7 Days

7 Days
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

I’ll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet. Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered...

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