- Location(s): Skopelos
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
A TRUE STORY SET ON GREECE’S ‘MAMMA MIA! ISLAND OF SKOPELOS In November 2006, Linda and Dario gamble everything on their dream-a new life on the tiny Greek island of Skópelos. They’ve studied Greek, done their research, and have...
- Location(s): Kos
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This fast paced contemporary story takes place at the Aegean Sun Hotel in Greece over the summer season. Focusing on the various visitors who stay in room 101 on a weekly basis, it interweaves with the stories of the...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, California
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The new novel from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The MomentBrendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he’s a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
Rhodesia, 1943. The body of parachute instructor and local celebrity, Felicity Langham, has been found brutally raped and murdered. The police have arrested the most obvious suspect, a black man named Innocent. But it turns out, he is. WPC...
- Location(s): England, Rwanda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If...
- Location(s): Argyll and Bute, Glasgow
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
You need to know who your husband really was… When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost thirty years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son, Christopher’s death, her world falls apart. Grieving and bereft, she is...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
After the Rains is an adventurous, dramatic coming of age novel set in post-colonial Rhodesia that parallels the coming of age of fictional Jayne Cameron with that of post-colonial Rhodesia as it morphs into the free Zimbabwe. This is...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Various
Meet four generations of the Duvalier family, for whom sugar cane is both their blessing and their curse. From patriarch Carter, who perishes before the novel begins after being hit in the head by an exploding manhole cover, and...
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Revenge is a dish best served warm…High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She’s off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. To make friends, she enters the local quiche-making competition...
- Location(s): New Delhi
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, three a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five...
Please wait...
