- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Nebraska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sabine—twenty years a magician’s assistant to her handsome, charming husband—is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident...
The Magnificent Conman of Cairo
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Malim, carpenter’s apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Malim stumbles across a stash of money and...
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- Location(s): United States (USA), World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn 20th Century
Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lila De is on the verge of a career breakthrough when she gets a call from her mother in Kolkata, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate-so she returns there after a decade of estrangement. Lila’s grandmother,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought after artists’...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
A killer who runs rings around the police. A detective who is out of control. Meet DSI Wilde. Wilde by name. Wild by nature. DSI Billie Wilde is on a mission to catch the killer responsible for a horrific...
- Location(s): Spetses
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
An island of myth, legend . . . and murder? As the summer sun beats down on the ancient town of Acitrezza, a folk festival plays out in the picturesque harbour. Music, laughter and the aroma of local delicacies...
- Location(s): Barrow in Furness
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Barrow-in-Furness, 1933 The days of the Barrow Union at Roose are numbered and it is due be closed, along with all the other workhouses. Instead ‘Cottage Homes’ have been set up for pauper children, where they live under the...
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