- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
FIRST THERE WERE THREE The media calls them the Final Girls – Quincy, Sam, Lisa – the infamous group that no one wants to be part of. The sole survivors of three separate killing sprees, they are linked by...
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Portobello
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
WHERE IS STEF CAMPBELL? AND WHO CAN BE TRUSTED TO BRING HER HOME? Paramedic Andy Campbell has a secret he can’t tell anyone, not least the police. But when his missing wife’s image is found at the home of a suspected killer,...
- Location(s): Chicago, San Juan Islands
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
After witnessing the murder of an FBI agent in a parking garage late one night, Lizzy Monroe meets with the FBI and agrees to work with a sketch artist. But on her way out of the office, she comes...
Finding George Orwell in Burma
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Era(s): Modern
In one of the most brilliant and intrepid memoirs in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma’s underground...
- Location(s): Perth, Western Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
It is 1956, and twelve-year old Gin has arrived at the family farm, ‘Grasswood’, in the South West of Western Australia. She has been left in the care of her lively, idiosyncratic aunt, Attie, while her mother, an English...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Era(s): 1950s
In December 1950, the worst riots Singapore has ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wounding 173. Racial and religious tension had been simmering for months over the custody battle for wartime waif Maria...
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and Renaissance
Prepare to be swept away by a heart-warming tale of family relationships and love Three women. Three generations. Sacrifices for love… Who is she really? Nicole is about to find out as she searches for her real mother; the...
Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories 3
- Location(s): Wyoming
- Genre(s): Fiction
The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’. ‘Fine Just The Way It Is’ marks Annie Proulx’s return to the Wyoming of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and the familiar cast of...
- Location(s): Europe, Mannheim
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Can a man change his stars? Can he ever really rise above? These are the questions that plague our mortal souls. Bryce Finley, a 48-year-old Canadian single father with an unfinished university degree, two nearly grown children, and no...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1940's
In 1941, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the Philippines and subjected its people to rape, enslavement and murder with an estimated 1 million Filipinos killed during the conflict. In December of 1944, the USA took the islands back...
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