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The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch
  • Author(s): Donna Tartt
  • Location(s): Las Vegas, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Told as a retrospective through the eyes of 13 year old Theo Decker based in Manhattan, where he lives with his mother. His father – a seemingly alcoholic degenerate – walked out on them the previous year. On a...

The Greek Escape

The Greek Escape
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Greece, Hydra, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Before every new beginning, there must be an ending . . . Running from heartbreak, Chloe Marston leaves her old life in London for a fresh start in New York. Working at a luxury concierge company, she makes other...

The Hard Way (Jack Reacher 10)

The Hard Way (Jack Reacher 10)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher’s job is to make sure it...

The Helper

The Helper
  • Author(s): David Jackson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

From the back cover: A grisly murder in a New York bookstore seems to hold a special significance for Detective Callum Doyle: the victim’s been marked with a message… Then the sinister phone calls start. Doyle is told more...

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats
  • Author(s): Hesh Kestin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1963

It’s New York, 1963, and college student Russell Newhouse has just made the acquaintance of notorious Jewish gangster Shoeshine Cats. Cats wants a tiny favour. And – for his own reasons – he also wants to educate Russell in...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris
  • Author(s): Lynn Sheene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Claire is living a privliged life of a socialite in Manhattan, married to Russell, lover of Laurent. Russell is a German sympathiser and after revelations, Claire flees to Paris and finds herself part of the Resistance Movement.

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  • Author(s): Oscar Hijuelos
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1940s onwards

It’s 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls...

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

The Museum of Extraordinary Things
  • Author(s): Alice Hoffman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has...

The Nest

The Nest
  • Author(s): Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A sharp and funny debut about a wonderfully dysfunctional New York family and the three grown-up siblings fighting to save the family money pot – the ‘nest’ – as their oldest brother threatens to lose it all. When Leo...

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