- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1990s
I have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the sake of my family that I can only keep going. I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened,...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Sex and death have been locked into a theological equation known as sexual pessimism, since the days of the Early Fathers of the Catholic Church. The very curious thing is that this aversion to the carnal, and its consequent...
- Location(s): Ottawa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
Detective Mike Ellis returns home after he is cleared in the death of a young boy while on vacation in Cuba, only to discover that his estranged wife, Hilary, is dead, and that he’s the main suspect. Meanwhile, Inspector...
- Location(s): Palermo, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1600s
Murderer or saviour? You decide. . . Rome, 1656 In the shadowy backstreets of the Eternal City lies an apothecary – a place for women to take their heartbreaks and troubles. Herbs for childbirth. Tarot readings to tell their...
The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club
- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages . . . When Stella and three...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): late 20th century
Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he...
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The Polished Hoe is an epic symphony of Caribbean life. Layers of disturbing history slowly unfold through one woman’s intimate, murderous confession. In this meditation on love, loss and sacrifice Mary-Mathilda – mistress of a cruel plantation manager –...
- Location(s): Pollensa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The 3R team are back in action in the second of the series! Lily Green is scared stiff. Kidnapped after she leaves her work in Pollensa, Mallorca, she doesn’t know why this has happened and even when drugged and...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1959
The hero of John Updike’s first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhouse—a county home for the aged and infirm—overseen by...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure—a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick—comes a stunning speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship. “A masterful, tender exploration of love, loss, and the...
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