- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan,...
- Location(s): London, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
‘Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.’ Charles Cumming London, mid-1970s. A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature rises with each...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
The Madonnas of Leningrad, the first novel by Seattle professor Debra Dean, is the story of Marina, a young museum docent who takes refuge in the Hermitage during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. The paintings and artifacts are gone,...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Connections Book 2) On the night Madrid hosts the Champions League Final, disaster erupts at the Prado Museum: a guard is murdered and a Caravaggio is stolen. British art detective Benjamin Blake, hoping for a quiet few days...
- Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
TRANSLATED BY JETHRO SOUTAR The first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde, and the first to be translated into English, The Madwoman of Serrano is a magical tale of rural ideals and urban ambition,...
- Location(s): Davos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1910s
Hans Castorp is ‘a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man’ when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
With her magic paintbrush, Shen can paint steaming pots full of fish and oysters to feed the hungry people in her village, but when the evil emperor hears of her gift he commands Shen to paint gold for him...
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie’s talent is unique, and his amazing journey weaves him through...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
This is a Gothic novel of Melanie who has to leave her childhood home and move to live with relatives, whom she has never met. Various characters populate this beautiful novel, including brooding Uncle Philip, who loves only the...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 20th century
From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find...
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