The Girls, Alone: Six Days in Estonia
- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): contemporary
A resurfacing writer hits the sauna, bares it all, and learns the true meaning of saga. In her latest work, award-winning author Bonnie J. Rough separates from her family for a surprising journey into the difficult past and precarious...
- Location(s): El Chaltėn
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary
The body of a tourist turns up frozen in Patagonia’s largest glacier, killed by a gunshot to the belly thirty years ago. Of course, you have no idea that this will change your life. You’ve lived all of it...
- Location(s): Athens, Calderdale, Snowdonia, Spetses
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1970s
Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...
- Location(s): Vancouver Island, Manhattan
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1680s
1686, Iceland. An isolated, windswept land haunted by witch trials and steeped in the ancient sagas . . . Betrothed unexpectedly to Jón Eiríksson, Rósa is sent to join her new husband in the remote village of Stykkishólmur. Here,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 16th century
Daniela the glassmaker’s daughter is grumpy and never smiles. Her father promises a beautiful glass palace to anyone who can make her laugh. People come from far and wide to try their luck in amusing Daniela. But mask makers,...
- Location(s): Cork City
- Era(s): Contemporary
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS’ WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do stupid things when we’re kids. Ryan Cusack’s grown up faster than most – being the oldest of six with a...
- Location(s): Utah
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s
“…marvelous… a rich, powerful, and wholly immersive tale…” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 1888 Utah Territory Deborah doesn’t expect a knock on her door in the middle of a harsh winter evening. During good weather, sometimes Mormon men fleeing the...
- Location(s): West Yorkshire, Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1666 and 2014
1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith....
- Location(s): Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1943 and contemporary
Heartbreaking and heartwarming, this tale of three generations of women tells of bravery, secrets, lies, family conflict and discovery: the consequences of one courageous woman’s decision to join the Special Operations Executive in World War Two. In 1943, when...
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