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The Place I Belong

The Place I Belong
  • Author(s): Nancy Herkness
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fleeing professional scandal and a broken engagement, veterinarian Hannah Linden abandons Chicago for the mountain town of Sanctuary, West Virginia, hoping to put her troubles with men and the media behind her. But when she encounters world-famous chef Adam...

The Place We Call Home

The Place We Call Home
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Ballycove, the home of Corrigan Mills… Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Irish countryside the famed Corrigan Mills are run by the seemingly perfect Corrigan family, but every family has its secrets, and they don’t always...

The Place We Met

The Place We Met
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Lake Como
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Christmas and New Year on Lake Como…. Lucy may have suffered her fair share of bad men, but now she has Pete. Finally, a man worth sharing her favourite place with, Lake Como. That’s if she can put mysterious...

The Plague

The Plague
  • Author(s): Albert Camus
  • Location(s): Algeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own...

The Plantation

The Plantation
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author – her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared...

The Playground Murders

The Playground Murders
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): West London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980 & 2018

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children’s lives were changed for ever. Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn’t tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest...

The Pledge

The Pledge
  • Author(s): Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lawyer Thea has just won the biggest case of her professional life when she receives a mysterious invitation – and finds herself on a jet, being whisked off to a private Caribbean island. Except this is no holiday. Thea’s...

The Plotters

The Plotters
  • Author(s): Un-su Kim
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The important thing is not who pulls the trigger but who’s behind the person who pulls the trigger – the plotters, the masterminds working in the shadows. Raised by Old Raccoon in The Library of Dogs, Reseng has always...

The Po

The Po
  • Author(s): Tobias Jones
  • Location(s): North Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 652 kilometres from one end of the country to the other. It rises by the French border in the Alps and meanders the width of the entire peninsula to...

The Poacher’s Son

The Poacher’s Son
  • Author(s): Paul Doiron
  • Location(s): The Maine Wilderness
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find a cryptic message on his answering machine from his father, Jack, who he hasn’t heard from in two years. The next morning Mike gets a call from the police:...

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