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Blue Sisters

Blue Sisters
  • Author(s): Coco Mellors
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...

Blueback: a Fable for All Ages

Blueback: a Fable for All Ages
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

From birth Abel lives by, from and for the sea. Set in Western Australia, Abel dives and befriends a grouper fish living in a cove and he comes to rely on the advice from the fish, whom he calls...

Blurred

Blurred
  • Author(s): Iris Wolff, Ruth Martin (translator)
  • Location(s): Romania
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s

In rural Transylvania, a young wife fearing for her unborn child takes a sleigh ride through all-enveloping snow. BLURRED tells the story of that child, Samuel, through the voices of those who know him. The boy grows up behind...

Body Count

Body Count
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Any bloody death will lead Inspectors Çetin Ikmen and Mehmet Süleyman out onto the dark streets of Istanbul. On 21 January, a half-decapitated corpse in the poor multicultural district of Tarlabasi poses a particularly frustrating and gruesome mystery. But...

Bombshell

Bombshell
  • Author(s): Joanna Vaughan
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Looking back at WW1

“Well that’s it. We’re at war! We’re at war with the blasted Hun! I hope you’re happy now, Clara!” It was the standard First World War tragedy. A young dad is killed at Ypres and never meets his newborn...

Bonjour Blanc

Bonjour Blanc
  • Author(s): Ian Thomson
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

An enthralling journey into the shadowy republic of Haiti. In the land of Voodoo, zombies and the Tontons Macoute. In this classic account, history jostles with adventure, high comedy is touched with danger; and Haiti glows like a magic...

Book of Clouds

Book of Clouds
  • Author(s): Chloe Aridjis
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is contemporary Berlin through the eyes of Tatiana, a young South American living in modern Berlin. The theme of connection/isolation and the transience of life is explored in beautiful prose

Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs

Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs
  • Author(s): Jeremy Mercer
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

‘Shakespeare and Company’ in Paris is one of the world’s most famous bookshops. The original store opened in 1921 and became known as the haunt of literary greats, such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra...

Boop and Eve’s Road Trip

Boop and Eve’s Road Trip
  • Author(s): Mary Helen Sheriff
  • Location(s): The American South
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Modern

Eve Prince is done—with college, with her mom, with guys, and with her dream of fashion design. But when her best friend goes MIA, Eve must gather together the broken threads of her life in order to search for...

Border Angels

Border Angels
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): County Armagh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A charred corpse and a set of footprints in the snow lead Celcius Daly into the twilight world of people trafficking. Inspector Celcius Daly is hunting for a missing woman, Lena Novak, who mysteriously disappeared one winter’s night along...

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