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The Inheritance

The Inheritance
  • Author(s): Trisha Sakhlecha
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion… Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how to split his petrochemicals empire between his three...

The Inheritance – The Guernsey Novels Book 7

The Inheritance – The Guernsey Novels Book 7
  • Author(s): Anne Allen
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th C and modern day

How close were Victor Hugo and his copyist? 1862 Young widow Eugénie is left bereft when her husband dies suddenly and faces an uncertain future in Guernsey. A further tragedy brings her to the attention of Monsieur Victor Hugo,...

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss
  • Author(s): Kiran Desai
  • Location(s): West Bengal, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for...

The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea
  • Author(s): Donald Richie
  • Location(s): Japanese Inland Sea (Seto)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

“Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value.”-Times Literary Supplement. “Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful...

The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea
  • Author(s): Madeleine Watts
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and early 19th century

A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world. In the early nineteenth century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water – ‘the inland sea’. He never...

The Inn at Tansy Falls

The Inn at Tansy Falls
  • Author(s): Cate Woods
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present (c. 2021, when it was published)

At loose ends after a tough few years, a London bookkeeper in her mid-30s embarks on a sad trip to scatter the ashes of her late BFF in the small Vermont town of Tansy Falls. What starts as a...

The Inn at the Top

The Inn at the Top
  • Author(s): Neil Hanson
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub – The Tan Hill Inn – located in the bleak landscape of the...

The Inner Circle

The Inner Circle
  • Author(s): Brad Melzer
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): Modern

The darkest secret of the U.S. Presidency is about to be revealed. Beecher White, a young archivist for the US government, has always been the keeper of other people’s stories, never a part of the story himself . ....

The Innocents

The Innocents
  • Author(s): Michael Crummey
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with...

The Innocents

The Innocents
  • Author(s): Nathan Senthil
  • Location(s): Detroit
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He had evaded the law for years, but now it’s personal… Detective Joshua Chase’s life-long quest to find the most elusive and violent robber in the United States is about to end. But not in the way he hoped....

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