- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Interwar period and WWII
JOIN A HEROIC WARRIOR POET ON A JOURNEY THROUGH LOVE AND WAR IN THE NEXT EPIC NOVEL YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN “Brilliantly written, with superb characterizations” — Praise for Francis O’Neill in The New York Times...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
“Fear will learn to fear you.” If you liked Paul Coelho’s The Alchemist, you will love The Poetic Murderer. Detective 00 Hansen is an enigmatic dreamer in the streets of Copenhagen, riding a fast antelope, and living a slow...
- Location(s): Canberra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Themes of destruction, loss, and desire are explored in this intricately crafted novel. On a cliff overlooking a scenic lake and city skyline rises an elegant glass confection that is home to the best restaurant in town—The Point. Here,...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again. Now twenty-two, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone – and...
- 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...
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