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The Faces of Angels

The Faces of Angels
  • Author(s): Lucretia Grindle
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The narrator is Mary Warren, an American. She has been the victim of a near fatal attack in the Boboli Gardens during which her husband was murdered. Two years later, the suspected murderer having been killed in a car...

The Fallen Angel

The Fallen Angel
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realize that there is much more to the accident than he had first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise’s...

The Family on Paradise Pier

The Family on Paradise Pier
  • Author(s): Dermot Bolger
  • Location(s): England, Russia, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family. We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on...

The Girls

The Girls
  • Author(s): Emma Cline
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969

Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of...

The Glassblower of Murano

The Glassblower of Murano
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern, 1600s

Wonderful combination of mystery, historical intrigue and love, written by an English/Venetian author, which tells a story of passion, genius and betrayal linking the present and the past. Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to...

The Hamilton Case

The Hamilton Case
  • Author(s): Michelle de Kretser
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century up to 1970s

The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at...

The Historian

The Historian
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Kostova
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Science Fiction/Future

Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to ‘My dear and unfortunate successor’. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of...

The Ice Twins

The Ice Twins
  • Author(s): S K Tremayne
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

(copied from Amazon.co.uk) One of Sarah’s daughters died. But can she be sure which one? A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies...

The Illegal Gardener #1

The Illegal Gardener #1
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a dilapidated farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. The house is livable by local standards, but the...

The Italian Girl

The Italian Girl
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring...

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