Everything Happens for a Reason
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mum-to-be Rachel did everything right, but it all went wrong. Her son, Luke, was stillborn and she finds herself on maternity leave without a baby, trying to make sense of her loss. When a misguided well-wisher tells her that...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 2000s
On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little relief themselves....
- Location(s): Toulouse
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Baptiste Molino has devoted his life to other people’s happiness. Moored on his beloved houseboat on the edge of Toulouse, he helps his clients navigate the waters of contentment, whilst remaining careful never to make waves of his own....
- Location(s): Glasgow, London, Scotland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1985
Lisa Ballantyne, international bestselling author of The Guilty One, delivers a compelling domestic thriller with impeccably observed characters and masterful edge-of-your-seat storytelling in a novel that leaps between past and present with page-turning finesse They’re calling it the worst...
Exit Music: An Inspector Rebus Novel
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
It’s late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1958
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub...
- Location(s): Grasmere
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Exquisite was the #TFBookClub read September/October 2017, find out more on the Book Club page A chilling, exquisitely written and evocative thriller set in the Lake District, centring on the obsessive relationship that develops between two writers… Bo Luxton...
Extra Virgin: amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria
- Location(s): Liguria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century/various
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade...
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