- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
JULIA, DAVID, AND ERIKA grew up together spending summers at their idyllic Vermont lake homes for as long as they can remember. Now adults— with their own sullen teens, endless mortgages, and low-voltage sex lives— the three friends have...
- Location(s): London, Polperro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century to present
A missing child . . . June 1933, and the Edevane family’s country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not...
- Location(s): Lake Vyrnwy
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A controlled gangland hit or a crime of passion? A crudely dismembered body part is found at Lake Vyrnwy but DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans have little to go on to identify the victim. When a local...
- Location(s): Tegernsee
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A chalet in bloom. A heart on the mend. And a second chance she never expected. When London yoga instructor Lucy inherits a grand lakeside chalet in Tegernsee, she’s not convinced a springtime Alpine escape is the cure for...
- Location(s): West Indies, Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Turn of 18th-19th Centuries
The Lamorna Reach presents a Zola-esque tableau of raw, elemental life in Cornwall at the time of the Napoleonic wars. Issy Penhalligan, the heroine, is incredibly beautiful and talented, but these qualities do not secure her a happy, comfortable...
The Land at the End of the World
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In The Land at the End of the World, one of the twentieth century’s most original literary voices delivers a haunting and heartrending meditation on the absurdities of love and war. Considered to be Antonio Lobo Antunes’s masterpiece, The...
- Location(s): Middle East
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it. From Jerusalem, McCarron followed a series of wild hiking trails that trace...
- Location(s): The West Country
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1962
December 1962, the West Country. In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets,...
- Location(s): Java, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
A novel inspired by a true story (English Edition) Synopsis: Alif had never set foot outside of West Sumatra. He passed his childhood days searching for fallen durian fruit in the jungle, playing soccer on rice paddies, and swimming...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 20th century
Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town...
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