- Location(s): Greece, Italy, Malta, Syria
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Inspector George Zammit Series Book 5 An act of sacrifice A young boy starts his journey in the refugee camps of Syria, only to find himself excited on the terraces of a football stadium in London. How did...
- Location(s): Truro (Cape Cod), New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1980s
A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod. In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939-1940
August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival were not what she expected....
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Was she incredibly brave or incredibly stupid? Neither. Just a bookshop girl doing what she could against her country’s oppressors. The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and...
- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1944
In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2020
SHE’LL RISK EVERYTHING TO CATCH A SERIAL KILLER . . . As the pandemic begins, Josie Thompson is a struggling waitress, mom of two great kids. She wants a fresh start far from her abusive husband, the confining small...
The Last Camel: True Stories about Somalia
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
The Last Camel is a collection of stories about the people who live in a little village in Northern Somalia. These are compelling tales about African spirits, clever women, untouchable Midgaans, sagacious elders who struggle with modern technology, bandits,...
- Location(s): Central Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A woman walks the Camino de Santiago meeting new friends and finding a version of herself that she thought was lost. One year after her husband’s death, Julie embarks on the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, a journey of pain,...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Having been forced to leave his father, sister and home town of Rome at the age of seven, Francesco De Luca grows up in England, never fully understanding why he was parted from his family. Twenty-six years later, Francesco’s...
- Location(s): Aspen
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941 and present day
John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years — a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom...
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