- Location(s): Australia, France
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Historical fiction based on a true story about an Australian woman who became a Dior model in post-WW2 Paris.
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in conversation with Elena Ferrante, Colombe Schneck’s three semi-autobiographical takes on a woman’s life form an elegant, powerful exploration of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, loss and renewal. Colombe is seventeen in 1984 and...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle. When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Suspense
- Era(s): Late 1800s / Contemporary
Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, thought she had left her dreams behind when she took a job cleaning for the city’s wealthy elite. Then she meets Stella Swanson, the widow of one of the most notorious art...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city—and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses. For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Europe, Lithuania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Political, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post war
Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes wiser than the people inside them. She’d have liked to impress somebody with this idea, but couldn’t explain it. On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A birthday to remember. But would they rather forget…? Ralph is turning 45, and the only gift he wants is his ex-wife. Gemma, his trophy girlfriend, won’t let anything ruin her plans for an engagement. Sarah, the ex-wife, has...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Party House by Lin Anderson is a deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set in the Scottish Highlands, for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Sarah Pearse’s The Sanatorium. Devastated by a recent pandemic brought in by outsiders, the...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
An enthralling novel of individual bravery versus silent, collective complicity, set in a vividly drawn farming community in 1970s New Zealand.The Baxters do not know their place.On the first of June every year, sharemilkers load their trucks with their...
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