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The Night Rainbow

The Night Rainbow
  • Author(s): Claire King
  • 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...

The Paradise Guest House

The Paradise Guest House
  • Author(s): Ellen Sussman
  • 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...

The Pool House

The Pool House
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • 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....

The Preacher

The Preacher
  • Author(s): Sander Jakobsen
  • 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...

The Promise

The Promise
  • Author(s): Ann Weisgarber
  • 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...

The Recession Groom

The Recession Groom
  • Author(s): Vani
  • 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...

The Redbreast (Harry Hole 3)

The Redbreast (Harry Hole 3)
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • 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...

The Secret in their Eyes

The Secret in their Eyes
  • Author(s): Eduardo Sacheri
  • 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...

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • 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...

The Silent Hours

The Silent Hours
  • Author(s): Cesca Major
  • 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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