The invisible life of Euridice Gusmao
- Location(s): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Euridice is young, beautiful and ambitious, but when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, she sets her own aspirations aside and vows to settle down as a model wife and daughter. And yet as her husband’s professional success grows, so...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The author is a celebrated columnist, a former literature lecturer, and the founder of Uganda Women Writers’ Association. She is also a playwright and has published children’s literature. This novel is a fictionalised record of Uganda’s past tragic national...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1900s
It’s 1865 and the Great Western Railway has spread across Cornwall, changing the face of the countryside with earthworks and viaducts. Now a new line in under construction. The invading army of navvies has many women but few wives....
- Location(s): Fiji
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
Shaw is in Fiji to sell a stolen painting to the crime boss, Vornis. It will be the deal of a lifetime, if Shaw can pull it off. But then Vornis parades his latest toy around in front of...
- Location(s): Australia, The Outback
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but...
- Location(s): Elliðaey
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is sent to the isolated island of Elliðaey to investigate a disappearance. But she finds haunting similarities to an old case – the murder of a young woman ten years ago. Has a patient killer...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jody, Ari and Carla have won golden tickets to the summer’s hottest music festival, which promises to be full of glamour, mystique and lots of freebies. But, arriving on the sun-drenched shores of a private Greek island among influencers...
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Island – where everyone knows everyone, and secrets are impossible to keep… ‘Be careful, you don’t know them as well as you think. Remember – anyone can kill.’ Juliet has returned to the Isle of Wight from years...
- Location(s): Bornholm, Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Island at the Center of the World
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): pre 1664
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of...
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