- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Murder is no occupation for a lady… or is it? 1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her time. Rather than attending Oxford to bag an eligible Duke (as her mother, Lady Vale, so desperately hoped), she...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!’ Wilde’s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray...
- Location(s): Berlin, Zurich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The 25th anniversary edition of The Pilgrimage, the precursor to The Alchemist. In this gripping story, Paulo Coelho is on a quest for the ultimate in self-knowledge, wisdom and spiritual mastery. Guided by his mysterious companion Petrus, he takes...
- Location(s): Tunisia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): World War II
Originally published in 1953 (in English in 1955), The Pillar of Salt the semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia. To gain access to privileged French society, he must reject his many identities –...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
The Kingsbridge Novels Book 1 A Mason with a Dream It is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Biography
- Era(s): 10th Century
Japan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the moment, having no interest in...
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporar
Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu. Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago. A thousand times she has told herself to...
- Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): Early 1990's
Problems are mounting in the Masaibu project – Can Sam Harris solve them all or will she have to choose? Geologist Sam Harris gets a call in the middle of the night that takes her to the Masaibu project...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
A baffling mystery sets an FBI agent on a dangerous path… Park rangers are puzzled when a child is found wandering alone in the middle of a forest near Seattle. Stranger still, he speaks a peculiar language that sounds...
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