- Location(s): Syracuse
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): Ancient Greece (3rd century BC)
The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy’s Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world’s greatest minds,...
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1915 - 2012
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winters night and a home birth...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Moving back and forth between London and Sri Lanka, the novel brings to life Prins Ducal and his...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
HE’S SWEDEN’S MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL KILLER. Jurek Walter is serving a life sentence. Kept in solitary confinement, he is still considered extremely dangerous by psychiatric staff. HE’LL LULL YOU INTO A SENSE OF CALM. Mikael knows him as “the...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, he doesn’t expect to find them both in danger. Every day is the same. He drops Leandro at his smart prep school and walks to the library...
- Location(s): Santorini
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Three women, one writing retreat, endless possibilities… Bestselling author Jessica Rose needs to escape from a terrible secret that’s robbed her of her creativity. Could leading a retreat on a gorgeous Greek island be just what she needs? Coming...
- Location(s): Amritsar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Young Ramchand rushes through the dusty streets of Amritsar, once again late for work. Chastised by his boss, he takes his place among the cottons and silks of the sari shop, selling yards of cloth to the wealthy and...
- Location(s): Pacific Northwest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch. This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
“I had an idea for a road trip; a sports car I shouldn’t have bought; and a wife to point out that what looks entirely feasible on a scaled map can actually be quite a long way away.” This...
- Location(s): Karoo
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tannie Maria Mystery 2 Meet Tannie Maria – recipe writer turned crime fighter – and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In...
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