- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rose waits for her family to arrive at their villa in Tuscany when a casual glance at her husband’s phone tips her world upside down. The text reads simply: ‘Miss you. Love you. Come back soon.’ Daniel has always...
- Location(s): London, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 / 1997
Rome 1939 Arriving in Rome to work for the wealthy Montefalco family, Maddalena is homesick and alone. She finds solace – and love – in the beauty of the city, but as the war in Nazi-occupied Italy rages, she...
- Location(s): Wisconsin, France, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
From the national bestselling author of Banyan Moon, a captivating, evocative story of two estranged sisters on a quest to find a painting by a forgotten Vietnamese artist that holds the truth of their family’s fractured past. Aside from the fact they...
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
- Location(s): Karachi
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a ‘mythopoetic legacy’ of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan...
- Location(s): Adelaide
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern Day
Judith Drainger has always played life by her own rules. But these days life seems to be playing her right back. Divorced, orphaned and forcibly retired, 59-year-old Judith is determined to seize the opportunity to leave her broken home...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, DC philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they’re...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
- Era(s): 2019-2020
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman’s relentless errors. Louise Erdrich’s latest novel,...
The Sentinel (Jack Reacher 25)
- Location(s): Nashville
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 – his 25th adventure. No one’s bigger than Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup...
- Location(s): Seoul, Yeonhui-dong
- Era(s): Contemporary
A touching testament to the power of letter writing and connecting with strangers, for fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and What You’re Looking For is in the Library. Hyoyoung feels trapped in her small hometown after her...
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