- Location(s): Chania, Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Artist Theia Constas receives a tour of Italy from her grandmother as a college graduation present. Before she departs, her ya-ya’s deathbed revelation of a cache of WWII photographs and love letters extends Theia’s itinerary to Crete in search...
The Sifnos Chronicles I: tales from a greek isle
- Location(s): Sifnos
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): present day
Quirky and beguiling, often unwittingly funny, and always so utterly kind, the people of the Greek island of Sifnos charm and fascinate. They roar past on motorbikes with whole families squeezed on top, plus whatever earthly goods they can...
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
After nine years investigating the exact location of the ultimate religious icon, the Ark of the Covenant, British researcher and investigative journalist Graham Hancock reveals his status-quo shattering discoveries. Part mystery thriller, part true adventure and part travel book,...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1769
Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief’s grandson, he is invited to join...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1992 and present day
Doctor Abby Fenton has a rewarding career, a loving family, an enviable lifestyle – and a secret that could destroy everything. When human remains are discovered in the grounds of an idyllic Tuscan villa she is forced to confront...
- Location(s): Sydney, Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, Joe, phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967,...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): The near future
From one of America’s greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in...
- Location(s): South Korea, North Korea
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1800
June Hur’s elegant and haunting debut The Silence of Bones is a bloody YA historical mystery tale perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Renée Ahdieh. I have a mouth, but I mustn’t speak; Ears, but I mustn’t hear;...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary Award There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent – till now. Discover the greatest...
- Location(s): Baltimore
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
FBI trainee Clarice Starling has an elusive serial killer to hunt. Only one man can help. Psychopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter… The serial killer nicknamed ‘Buffalo Bill’ has been capturing and starving women, then murdering and skinning them. FBI rookie...
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