- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
ONE CANCELLED WEDDING When the day finally comes for Annie to marry Alexander, the last thing she expects is to be left standing at the altar. She was so sure he was Mr Right. Now, she has no idea...
The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia
- Location(s): Italy, Spain
- Genre(s): Novella, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): renaissance
A sort of prequel to the television series “The Borgias”, here Rodrigo Borgia is a man in his youthful prime looking back on what has shaped him and with an eye toward his future. The story opens on a...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.’ Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing...
- Location(s): Lynmouth
- Genre(s): Children, Noir, Short Stories
- Era(s): N/A
Beautiful places hide dark secrets … Devon’s very own crime writer L.V Hay (The Other Twin, Do No Harm) brings forth three new short stories from her dark mind and poison pen: – For kidnapped Meg and her young son Danny, In...
The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The fourth and most spooky Monstacademy mystery. The mountains are full of secrets… Trixie, Gloria and Colin are off on a trip to Peru to study ancient monsters. When they arrive and find that the children of the local...
- Location(s): The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
A British police detective’s latest case gets curiouser and curiouser in this hard-hitting novel by the author of The Devil’s Line. DSI Billie Wilde’s romantic relationship is intense—but it’s nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1885
‘Enter the danse of this little masterpiece and let yourself be dazzled. Assured of hitting the bestseller lists’ The Parisian; ‘Essential reading’ Cosmopolitan ‘A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de Coeur against the condition of women in this...
- Location(s): Baghdad, Amsterdam, Serbia
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980 to early 2000s
From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam… Blasim s stories present an uncompromising...
- Location(s): Catalonia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid/Late 19th Century
Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...
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