- Location(s): Europe, The Mediterranean, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back 20 years
On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight. She and her husband Jason vow to do whatever it takes to bring Robert home. But...
- Location(s): St Kilda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Early 1920s
Wild Isle, Book 2 A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . . It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children,...
- Location(s): North Carolina, Hickory
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1944
It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns...
- Location(s): Munich
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s
My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents....
- Location(s): Egypt, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1936 and 1978
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old...
- Location(s): Manitoba
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant—and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her—Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Twelve-year-old Nakri’s beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation’s capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and her siblings end up in a children’s labor camp, separated from everything they’ve...
The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A riveting, entertaining, and richly detailed nonfiction narrative in the spirit of The Orchid Thief, Longitude and Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, this is the first book ever written about Imperial Green Jade — the rare and beautiful stone more precious than...
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire through the life and dilemmas of a gay man. It is a bold and radical novel, full of black humor...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One wrong turn is all it takes to disappear… Two friends, a hidden trail and a frantic search for the truth. The brand-new gripping thriller from No. 1 bestselling author Carmel Harrington is available to pre-order now. ‘Carmel Harrington...
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