The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The protagonist is a handsome, wealthy Parisian bank manager. Born in the Maghreb, his life was once devoted to Sundays with his mother, family reunions, pious sobriety and fervant Islamism. But he’s through with all that. The time has...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
From one of China’s most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic dreams—all set against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing China. In post–Cultural Revolution China, in the...
- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
With 18 million copies sold worldwide, THE SHACK is an international bestseller that explores life’s toughest questions through the gripping story of one man’s struggle to find answers to his suffering. Mack’s youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance
- Era(s): Various
Raven Wood’s vampyre prince William has returned, pledging his love and promising justice for every wrong done to her. In the wake of their reunion, Raven is faced with a terrible decision: allow the Prince to wreak his vengeance,...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
“On February 11 you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm. Of your own free will. And for a good reason.” Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Historical
- Era(s): 1780s
There’s something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness? Meirionydd, 1783. Dr Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post in London. The only job he can find is in Wales where...
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1935
ETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Torn from his father and a loving sister, the young student Zuba is imprisoned for a crime he has not even thought about committing. His misfortune is to live in a world where corruption is rife and honest and...
- Location(s): Kensington
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1911
Knives Out meets Sherlock in the must-read new historical murder mystery from the Times bestselling author of The Murder at World’s End, for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Tom Hindle and Janice Hallett. London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Victorian
As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise...
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