- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Opal Desert is the story of three women from different generations with unresolved issues in their lives who meet in the fictitious NSW town of Opal Lake. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband...
- Location(s): Tennessee
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920-1940
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is a classic from one of America’s finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a...
- Location(s): Pacific Northwest
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
At the turn of the twentieth century, in a remote stretch of Northwest America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were his children. One day, two teenage girls steal his fruit at the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 17th Century
Set in New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century, Zimmerman’s nicely flowing narrative is animated by robust characters who thrive on the edges of civilization. Hardy Dutch colonists are the main inhabitants of this bustling community, but traders and adventurers...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy from nowhere who is plucked from his orphanage by the military, to be trained as a tunnel assassin, a kidnapper, a spy. He...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1500s
- Location(s): London, Scarborough
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern, 1970s, WW2
In the northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. The investigation continues apace, yet they are still struggling to...
- Location(s): London, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Richie leaves his first wife and child (without going through the process of divorce) and goes off to live with another woman,and with her he fathers three daughters. His untimely death reveals the legal ramifications of his actions, and...
- Location(s): England, Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely...