- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain’s leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous...
- Location(s): West Fife
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1966
Mission-raised Ellie Amadi expects to live a dream life when she and her son Nat leave home in West Africa to join her white, estate factor, husband James in the Fife mining village of Hollyburn. In 1966 Fife, mixed...
- Location(s): Hartland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Present day
This is the second book in the Esme Quentin genealogy mystery series Esme Quentin’s arrival in north Devon is marred by the gruesome discovery of a fatally injured woman at the foot of Warren Cliff. Troubled by the woman’s...
- Location(s): India, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
- Era(s): early 2000s
When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found...
- Location(s): Charleston
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1700s
A deeply-researched and powerfully-written work of historical fiction, based on the untold story of Eliza Lucas, an extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in Colonial-era South Carolina, whose actions were before their time: the story of the indigo girl. In 1739, bright...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury ‘historic’ hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every so-called improvement, what will be lost?...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren’t there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Berkeley, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Current Day
When social media megastar Skye partners with Nathan’s charity, the funds pour in. And Nathan’s daughters, massive fans of the star, are thrilled. But he worries about Skye’s influence on them. While his personal life disintegrates, Nathan begins to...
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