- Location(s): Athens, Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1960s, earlyu 1970s
It is the late 1960s and after her strict English boarding school, Angel is delighted to be back on Crete, the island she loves. She and her friend Chrissi are planning to spend the long summer days as they’ve...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2, present
The nameless narrator of “HHhH” has serious misgivings about the novel he is writing. Like Laurent Binet, the book’s French author, he has spent years examining the murder of the SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942 with...
- Location(s): Australia, Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It’s a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife can make a new life and forget the troubles of...
- Location(s): Trinidad, CO
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1900s
A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin. The town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one,...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young man discovers a family secret that turns his world upside down in this dark, emotive, shocking psychological thriller by number-one bestselling author Michael J. Malone John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Recruited to work on a documentary project, Julian goes to New York convinced he has hit big time at last. Finding the project cancelled, he wanders the city streets and, with nowhere else to go, decides to set out...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Denver
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 + Contemporary
It Happened in Tuscany is a captivating breath of the Italian countryside. This powerful novel portrays the epic struggle between duty and honor and redefines the meaning of “family.” The novel begins in 1945 in Italy’s Apennine Mountains with...
- Location(s): Bodmin Moor
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late Victorian
The scenery and setting are a crucial background to this book. Mary Yellan is to go and live on these very bleak and hostile moors at the solitary and isolated Jamaica Inn, run by the frightening and cruel drunkard,...
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Location(s): Varanasi, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book is in 2 parts – the first part is set during the Biennale, journalist Jeff drinks and snorts his way in and out of social events, and has a short affair with Laura, an American gallery director....
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Lucia Sartori, now in her seventies, single, tells the story of her life to the only other single woman who lives in the same apartment block as her Kit who is mid twenties. it is the story of New...
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