- Location(s): Ibiza
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
What happens when you invite an outsider in? It was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime – a luxury villa in Ibiza, a group of university friends, and their last chance to cut loose before embarking on...
- Location(s): Canada, Israel, Israel, Palestine, Palestine
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century to 1990s
White Zion takes readers into the worlds of 19th century Yemen, pre-State British Mandate Israel, modern Israel and modern Canada. You will hear the voices of a young boy marveling at Israel’s first air force on his own roof,...
- Location(s): Tangier
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
I want that gun, even if it’s in a fish’s stomach. When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet in the chest, Detective Laafrit knows this isn t just another illegal immigrant who...
- Location(s): Colchester
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
It’s November 1983 in Essex and there are reasons to be cheerful. Uptown Girl is sitting pretty at the top of the charts, Risky Business is raking it in at the box office, and there are now four channels...
- Location(s): The Black Country
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure...
- Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): mid-1960s and on
Venice, California, 1965–Albert Zay, nineteen years old, has moved to Venice from the San Fernando Valley to pursue a penchant for drawing and watercolors, day job enlisted for reasons of necessity. In a mixture of circumstances that embrace a...
- Location(s): Canada, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Previously published as ‘The Beggar Maid‘, Alice Munro’s wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose’s life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world. Born into the back...
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Every summer, a once-sort-of-famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It’s a place where drum circles happen on...
Who is She? A Viv Fraser Mystery
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Doune, Stirling
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intelligent, sassy PI. Special Services can’t live with her but can they live without her? Who is She? No one knows that the past is a strange country more than Scottish sleuth Viv Fraser. In this, the fifth...
- Location(s): Central Florida
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In the fall of 1967, Faye Smith’s family moves to Florida to work in the orange groves, and she has to start a new school… again. She tries out for the track team, knowing her mother would never approve...
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