- Location(s): Berlin, Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the heart-pounding new installment of the No.1 bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department’s own – the enigmatic Assad. The newspaper refers to the dead body only as...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
A miller’s son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporay
Two timely explorations of male sexual violence, power and corruption Love and hate, desire and guilt, friendship and betrayal form the coordinates of these two intensely dramatic stories of men and women caught between their irrational passions and the...
- Location(s): South India
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1300s-1600s
In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century / later 20th Century
VIENNA PASSION is the autobiography of Rosa, a chambermaid, royal mistress and murderess, whose life mirrors all the sordid glamour of Vienna at the turn of the century. It is interleaved with the story of a tentative romance: that...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd time – Jill ‘Doll’ Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
A coming-of-age novel, a love story and a tale of life-enhancing friendship: Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer showcases his wit, sophistication and deep knowledge of focaccia in this magical tale set amidst the Tuscan hills. Broke and directionless,...
- Location(s): Lugano, Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Jennifer Logan just buried her husband, the beloved senior senator from Rhode Island. To find solace and peace for her troubled soul, she rents a villa in a small town on the Swiss-Italian border. For the next six months,...
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