- Location(s): Antibes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Carla Sullivan’s 50th birthday is fast approaching when her whole world is turned upside down. Discovering her feckless husband is having yet another affair and following her mother’s death, she is in need of an escape. Finding an envelope...
- Location(s): Serowe, Botswana
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Serowe:Village of the Rain Wind, Bessie Head blends her skills as a novelist with the actual words of nearly one hundred inhabitants of a Botswanan village called Serowe to present a clear picture of the village community and...
- Location(s): Symi
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2013
A year living on Symi, a Greek island. James’ blog posts from 2013, edited and set out in printed form with images by Neil Gosling, take us through one whole year living on a small Greek island in southwest...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1900s
Get set for another incredible adventure with secret agents extraordinaire, Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lillian Rose! After the dramatic events of their mission to St Petersburg, Sophie and Lil know the truth – there’s a double-agent at work...
- Location(s): Vilnius
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1980s
A dark, enigmatic, and visceral examination of the psychology of repression, Vilnius Poker dives into the minds of four narrators whose contradictory memories challenge the very idea of truth. In this masterpiece written “for the drawer,” Vilnius itself becomes...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilt and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Current Day
Her perfect home. Her perfect man. How wrong can she be? After a bitter divorce, criminal solicitor Laila moves to idyllic Violet Lane where she quickly falls for Max—her charming, piano-playing neighbor. They begin a wildly passionate affair and...
- Location(s): London, Malta
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twice dead…A living nightmare The discovery of a blood-encrusted stiletto knife in journalist Emmeline Kirby’s bag at Heathrow Airport sets in motion a chain of events that ensnares everyone she holds dear. The body of Sebastian Jardine is soon...
- Location(s): Charleston, South Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller, Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt, acclaimed forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. However living on a secluded island off Charleston in South Carolina there is not much opportunity to put her...
Please wait...
