- 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...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Published in the USA as The Last Russian Doll. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land … … Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. One summer night, all that came abruptly to...
- Location(s): Berlin, Dachau
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history A daughter’s search for the truth Germany, 1929. When Max, a Jewish architect, and Bettina, a beautiful and celebrated German avant-garde artist, meet at a party their attraction is instant. In...
- Location(s): Northern France
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union,...
- Location(s): London, Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It’s clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty, but...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Secrets. Sisters. The summer that changed everything . . . Life in the Cornish village of Pendruggan isn’t always picture perfect. Penny Leighton has never told anyone why she’s estranged from her mother and sister. For years she’s kept...
- Location(s): London, Australia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s and 2002
2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to ‘Desmond’ among her recently deceased father’s effects, she is determined to discover this person’s identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take...
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