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House of the Hanged

House of the Hanged
  • Author(s): Mark Mills
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

A riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder, set on the French Riviera in the 1930s, from the No.1 bestselling author of The Savage Garden. France, 1935: At the poor man’s end of the Riviera sits Le Rayol,...

Housekeeping

Housekeeping
  • Author(s): Marilynne Robinson
  • Location(s): Idaho
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

cclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find...

How to be a good Wife

How to be a good Wife
  • Author(s): Emma Chapman
  • Location(s): Scandinavia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Marta and Hector have been married for a long time – so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can...

How To Be a Kosovan Bride

How To Be a Kosovan Bride
  • Author(s): Naomi Hamill
  • Location(s): Kosovo, Pristina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From late 20th Century to present

How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories of one of the newest countries in the world. It weaves together Albanian folktale, stories of Kosovan experience of the...

How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics

How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics
  • Author(s): Valerie Poore
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Late1900s

When Maisie Peterson leaves university in 1977 without a job to go to, she decides to help her mother save her large and impractical country property in the wilds of rural Dorset by trying her hand at self-sufficiency. Ma...

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

How to Escape from a Leper Colony
  • Author(s): Tiphanie Yanique
  • Location(s): US Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Lyrical, lush and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set primarily in the US Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, HOW TO ESCAPE FROM A LEPER COLONY is ultimately a lovely portrait of a wholly...

How to Find Your (First) Husband

How to Find Your (First) Husband
  • Author(s): Rosie Blake
  • Location(s): Tioman Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Isobel Graves moved to LA determined to be the Next Big Thing. Instead, she is dressed as a giant prawn handing out fliers promoting a fish market. Rather than attending glamorous parties and dating exciting men, her evenings consist...

How to Kill Your Best Friend

How to Kill Your Best Friend
  • Author(s): Lexie Elliott
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect getaway – to get away with murder… Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead – drowned off the coast of the remote island where...

Hunkeler’s Secret

Hunkeler’s Secret
  • Author(s): Hansjörg Schneider
  • Location(s): Basel, Alsace
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

#4 in The Inspector Hunkeler series Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, is hospitalized and sharing a room with Stephan Fankhauser, an old acquaintance terminally ill with cancer. One night, a groggy Hunkeler wakes up...

Hunting and Gathering

Hunting and Gathering
  • Author(s): Anna Gavalda
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum....

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