- Location(s): Cape Cod, New Jersey, Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural...
- Location(s): Beaujolais, England
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
Angel Heart is a lavish mix of romance, adventure, and a hint of the supernatural, largely set in France against the turbulent background of Napoleon’s return from Elba. Devonshire, January 1815. Marie-Ange, the young widow of an English officer,...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
An environmental scientist has chosen to spend the winter on a remote peninsula in the far north of Norway in order to collect data on the activities of the seabird population. She is determined to prove a link between...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything until it wasn t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they...
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1975
‘This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost’. In 1975 Kapuscinski’s employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the...
- Location(s): French Alps
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Bill Bryson on the slopes? Mont St Bernard, fictional, is the setting for this heady book on skis. Boozy nights, random Russians and skiing endeavours all contribute to an entertaining and delightful read of life on the slopes. Full...
- Location(s): Guadeloupe
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
On a plantation in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, a man’s body is found in a pond, riddled with bullets. The victim is Monsieur Calais, a wealthy land-owner; within 24 hours, a suspect is arrested. Anne Marie Laveaud, a...
- Location(s): Paris, Brighton
- Era(s): 20th Century
1911. Aged just fifteen, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown, until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal… 1997. Kendall’s romantic break in...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Children, Mystery
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
The setting is Birmingham Zoo ‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing’ – Daily Mirror...
Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome – 7)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
Rome is divided once again, and Caesar is dead. Lepidus is in Africa, Antony rules the East, Octavian the West, and with it Rome. Two heirs apparent to the throne of Rome. Cleopatra has her eye on Rome too,...
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