- Location(s): Scotland, Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2016
When a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case. While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later,...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
In the mid 90s, Elizabeth Booth is a young British college student studying Arabic at Durham University. With some travel and work already under her belt, she excels at her studies and is sent to Damascus to immerse herself...
Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, the geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha....
Gelato Sisterhood on the Amalfi Shore
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Warmed by the brilliant Campania sun and the lemon-scented breeze off shimmering Mediterranean waters, the Amalfi Coast has been seducing travelers since Roman times. Lush terraced mountainsides brimming with grape vines and olive groves tumble down to meet the...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
A gripping, multi award-winning, debut YA novel from First Nations Australian author Lisa Fuller, drawing on the culture and spiritual beliefs of her close-knit community. Stacey and Laney are twins and mirror images of each other but as different...
- Location(s): New Jersey, Philadelphia
- Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s and 1980s
Mark Glassman is twenty-five in 1979. Self-taught after dropping out of college, he devises a course of study that encompasses such varied works as “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” “The Universal Baseball Association,” and “Portnoy’s Complaint.” But the amount...
- Location(s): The Black Country
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
‘‘I was born in the Black Country and have lived there most of my life. I’ve always felt that it, and the texture of its part-industrial, part-rural landscape provokes a unique sensation of place, and I try to emulate...
- Location(s): London, Peru
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1823
Rainbow, an African shaman travels through London in the early-nineteenth century in an attempt to locate the gods who will rescue his homeland from famine. Ending up with the mercenaries in the Peruvian War of Independence he finds his...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): July 2023
Today, nothing is going right for Em. And it’s about to get much worse. Heartbroken by a recent split, with her 30th birthday looming, she loses her job and her home in the same morning because of two swaggering,...
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