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The Things I Should Have Told You

The Things I Should Have Told You
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2016

‘Anyone who loved the great Maeve Binchy will adore this gorgeous gem of a book’ – Claudia Carroll Every family has a story… But for the Guinness family a happy ending looks out of reach. Olly and Mae’s marriage...

The Things She Owned

The Things She Owned
  • Author(s): Katherine Tamiko Arguile
  • Location(s): Okinawa, London, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1940s-50s

Years after the death of her cruel and complicated mother, Erika is still surrounded by the things she left behind: an onigiri basket, a Wedgwood tea set, a knotted ring from Okinawa. Against her Japanese family’s wishes, Erika has...

The Things We Do To Our Friends

The Things We Do To Our Friends
  • Author(s): Heather Darwent
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead
  • Author(s): Charlie Laidlaw
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Crete, East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is a modern fairytale of love and loss. It’s about the subtle ways in which we change, and how the small decisions that we make can have profound and unintended consequences. On...

The Things We Need to Say

The Things We Need to Say
  • Author(s): Rachel Burton
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fran loves Will with all her heart. They had a whirlwind romance, a perfect marriage and a wonderful life. Until everything changed. Now Fran needs to find her way again and teaching a yoga retreat in Spain offers her...

The Things We Never Said

The Things We Never Said
  • Author(s): Susan Elliot Wright
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960 and 2008/9

The past shapes us all. But what happens when it hides a secret that changes everything? In 1964, Maggie wakes to find herself in a mental asylum, with no idea who she is or how she got there. Remnants...

The Things We Never Say

The Things We Never Say
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Strout
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to...

The Things We Said in Venice

The Things We Said in Venice
  • Author(s): Kristin Anderson
  • Location(s): Europe, Argentina
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Solid and dependable, high school counselor Sarah Turner knows all about helping others get their lives on track. But when her own life spirals drastically off course due to a fast-track divorce, she surprises everyone. She leaves her job...

The Third Gate

The Third Gate
  • Author(s): Lincoln Child
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary,

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King...

The Third Hotel

The Third Hotel
  • Author(s): Laura van den Berg
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying, and deeply felt second novel, Clare, recently widowed, arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the 36th annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, which her horror-loving film-professor husband, Richard, had purchased tickets...

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