- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Political
- Era(s): WW2
Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris, making headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral – a survivor of the last World War – watches helplessly on as his world changes forever....
The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
- Location(s): Athens, Crete, France
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): late 1950s
A WIDOW with the heartbreaking duty of escorting her husband’s body to his motherland, the last wish of a dying man. The HERETIC, who rose to prominence with his fierce and unyielding books, praised and beloved by an entire...
- Location(s): Big Sur
- Genre(s): Fiction, Destination Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE JUNE 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK! #destinationthriller Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken...
- Location(s): Appalachians, Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
When fledgling writer Zoe arrives at the Sicilian holiday home of famed novelist Don Travers, she feels that she has made it. And yet as the week unfolds it is not Don but his children and unknowable wife, Lydia,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1963
At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling...
- Location(s): Russia, Belarus
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Looking back to WW2
Extraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War – from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have...
The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Theodora Quirke has no reason to be merry. It’s bad enough that she has to work on Christmas Eve but now there’s a drunk bloke dressed as Santa and claiming to be St Nick hanging around outside her...
- Location(s): Somerset, Corsham, Corsham Court, London, The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
He wasn’t banking on someone else taking the reins… Lady Estelle Foxbrooke is done cleaning up the mess left by her wild parents. She’s got a plan: take the reins and save the family estate her way. But then...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead. So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World...
- Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Longlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series. How far would you run to escape your past? Venice...
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