- Location(s): Fallingbostel, Hamburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set in the early 1990s on a British army base, 4 a.m. tells the story of Cal and Manny, soldiers posted to Germany as army chefs. Bored and institutionalised, the pair soon succumb to the neon temptations of Hamburg’s red-light district,...
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
It’s Halloween in Las Vegas and things are crazier than normal for Connie the wedding planner. Vicky and Frank are in town for their nuptials but she soon realises that he has more on his mind than wedding bells....
44 Scotland Street (#1 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
First in the series. The stories are centred around the residents of a house in Edinburgh, and offer slices of life through the different characters who live there and whose lives overlap. (A note in the introduction that this...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
This is a series of letters charting the twenty-year correspondence between Hanff, searching for books which she could not find her homeland and Frank Doel, a London antiquarian bookseller. A unique and touching exchange, the friendship blossoms, but Hanff...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Struggling with its past, Cape Town is a city of shifting allegiances. A place where children go missing and remain gone. Law and order is an interesting concept in the Mother City but not a helpful one. Living on...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s
Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper — a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
The world is at war, but on the gilded streets of Fifth Avenue, New York, a battle of a different kind is brewing… New York, 1915. Elizabeth Arden has been New York’s golden girl since her beauty salon opened...
A Better Quality of Murder (Lizzie Martin 3)
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Evil lurks on the streets of Victorian London in this gripping crime novel. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Practice nurse Kate Palmer is ready for some peace and quiet in her little Cornish village, but there’s soon to be a murder on her doorstep… Kate’s retirement in Cornwall hasn’t quite gone as planned – Lavender Cottage is...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Set high above Ravello on the Amalfi Coast is the Villa Cimbrone, and is the unifying anchor for a cast of characters who in fact never meet. Empathic prose captures their lives, the author focusses on some of the...
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