- Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of...
- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home-perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garland’s The Beach. It starts as a...
- Location(s): The Hamptons, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
To Jem Chapman, it’s the chance of a lifetime. An invitation to join a group in an exclusive Hamptons house-share, who could say no? But when she discovers what happened last summer, Jem can’t help but feel a chill....
- Location(s): Aarhus
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
An astonishingly clever, gripping debut with a killer hook, by an exciting new Danish talent Thorkild Christensen stares down at his murdered wife, Karen, and realises he knows almost nothing about her. How did she fill her days? Where...
- Location(s): Galveston, Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In...
- Location(s): India, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Parshuraman Joshi, 27, handsome, Hindu-Brahmin, IT Professional, settled in Canada, earns a five-figure Canadian dollar salary ! These are credentials that would make any young man hot on the Indian wedding market, so it’s no wonder that Parshuraman’s family...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
This is in fact No. 3 in the series, as Batman and Cockroaches (1 and 2)are not available in English. So it is here that the reader must start. Harry Hole follows up an idea about a deadly sniping...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
The novel that became the Oscar-winning film. Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
Inspector Salvo Montalbano strives to do the right thing for the right reason. Food and crime mix in this inspired series. The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri’s wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector...
- Location(s): Oradour-sur-Glane
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s looking back to WW2
A story of love and loss inspired by heartrending true events in the Unoccupied Zone of wartime France An epic, sweeping tale set in wartime France, The Silent Hours follows three people whose lives are bound together, before war...










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