- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for her novel ‘Bel Canto’, Ann Patchett’s stunning first novel is about ‘pilgrimage and healing…A fairytale. A delight’. It is 1968. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth’s, a Roman Catholic home for unwed...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast. With her sharp...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1938
It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old, her...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): early 2000s
Special Agent Patrick Bowers had only met one man who made him truly afraid. Until now. When he’s called to North Carolina to consult on the case of an area serial killer, he finds himself in a deadly game....
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
As the war to end all wars is about to be followed by another, a young woman finds her life taking the same tragic course as her mother’s. One night in the summer of 1938 Violet Lowther’s mother Peggy...
- Location(s): North Carolina, Walls of Water
- Genre(s): Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the...
- Location(s): Bahrain, Manama
- Genre(s): Political, Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
WINNER OF THE 2024 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2024 BARRY BEST FIRST MYSTERY OR CRIME NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE 2024 MACAVITY...
- Location(s): India, Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Raj era
Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and companion, the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
The highly anticipated second novel from the author of acclaimed The Secret Starling – a spectacular adventure set through and under the streets of Paris. When Penelope Magnificent’s awful parents tell her they’re taking a trip to Paris, she...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The seventh book in Sujata Massey’s Agatha and Macavity Award-winning mystery series is a witty, suspenseful story that takes its young sleuth into the Washington DC restaurant world. A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start...
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