The Hippo-Chronos: AKA the Antikythera Key
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, North Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): modern, historical
In the picturesque seaside village of Tynemouth, on the north-east coast of England,?Roman Wall country, 14 year old schoolboy Alex struggles to come to terms with the first anniversary of the disappearance of his archaeologist dad. When Alex, his...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends?...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and...
- Location(s): The White Mountains
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
And who better to become founder, owner and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a remote, sprawling Victorian house sitting atop a hill in the beautiful White Mountains, New England. There, guests can find movie props and memorabilia in every...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Banned for many years by the Franco regime, Cela’s masterpiece presents a panoramic view of the degradation and suffering of the lower-middle class in post-Civil War Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of...
- Location(s): Hobart
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s / 1970s
December 1939: The grand opening of Australia’s most glamorous and talked about hotel, the Wrest Point Riviera. The equally glamorous Sabine Winters, recently arrived in Hobart from the Continent, anticipates a safe port from the storm that rages in...
- Location(s): Hoboken
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1970s
When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family’s Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta—a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own.
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
Two women, two very different lives – one perfect solution to a Christmas holiday fraught with potential pitfalls. The Holiday Swap. Florence Cortes has the perfect life – an apartment in the trendiest district of Barcelona, a job she...
- Location(s): Vale of White Horse
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
After being summoned to a crime scene late one Friday afternoon, Detective Mark Turpin arrives to find the body of a man, his face obscured by a plastic sheet wrapped around his head. When the victim’s final moments are...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. Cassidy Foster is heartbroken,...
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