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- Location(s): Thailand, California, Oakland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man’s journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in...
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1930s
Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Historical, 1850 Gold Rush
Violet Webster is a bride on the run. The last thing she wants is to get married, especially to a stranger twice her age. However, agreeing to be a mail-order bride had been her only option and it paid...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become...
- Location(s): Beverly Hills
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A desperate woman. An irresistible invitation. An escalating nightmare of secrets, lies, and murder. Bree’s new home is luxurious and private, with a fancy Beverly Hills address. What a shame it’s not hers. Widowed, penniless, living in her car,...
- Location(s): Hawai'i, England, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister’s...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Present
Roz and Jamie have moved to leafy Suffolk from London in search of a quiet life so it is a surprise to find that the village is embarking on its riotous annual drag competition. Fuelled by large quantities of...
- Location(s): County Clare, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s to 1926
LIVES APART tells the story of young Johanna McNamara, who, in 1877 leaves her quiet life on the family farm in County Clare and emigrates to America to join her successful businessman brother Hugh. Full of hope, she is...
- Location(s): Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. When they start up a pristine mountain trail that hasn’t been travelled in years, all they have to guide them is a...
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