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The Christmas Cafe

The Christmas Cafe
  • Author(s): Amanda Prowse
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Bea does not believe in second chances. A widow at fifty-three, Bea knows she must accept that she will be alone forever. She buries her grief in hard work, and soon the deli she runs in Surry Hills has...

The Clearing

The Clearing
  • Author(s): Dan Newman
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

In 1976, four boys walked into a jungle. Only three came back alive. Haunted by terrifying childhood memories he doesn’t fully understand, journalist Nate Mason returns to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia where he grew up. Back then,...

The Crooked Maid

The Crooked Maid
  • Author(s): Dan Vyleta
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1948

Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after...

The Cruise Club

The Cruise Club
  • Author(s): Caroline James
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to the sun with the #1 bestselling author of The Cruise in a feelgood rom com full of romance, fun and mischief, which will sweep you away to the azure waters of the Mediterranean with every turn of...

The Double Comfort Safari Club (11)

The Double Comfort Safari Club (11)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland:...

The Faces of Angels

The Faces of Angels
  • Author(s): Lucretia Grindle
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The narrator is Mary Warren, an American. She has been the victim of a near fatal attack in the Boboli Gardens during which her husband was murdered. Two years later, the suspected murderer having been killed in a car...

The Fallen Angel

The Fallen Angel
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realize that there is much more to the accident than he had first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise’s...

The Family on Paradise Pier

The Family on Paradise Pier
  • Author(s): Dermot Bolger
  • Location(s): England, Russia, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family. We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on...

The Girls

The Girls
  • Author(s): Emma Cline
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969

Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of...

The Glassblower of Murano

The Glassblower of Murano
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern, 1600s

Wonderful combination of mystery, historical intrigue and love, written by an English/Venetian author, which tells a story of passion, genius and betrayal linking the present and the past. Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to...

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