- Location(s): Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned...
- Location(s): Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the second of John Banville’s three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside Eclipse and Ancient Light. Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses...
A Cornish Christmas at the Farmhouse Bakery
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Newlyweds Ivy and Adam Taylor have put their heart and soul into building their own businesses, but when circumstances conspire against them, it all comes crashing down. Could a Christmas miracle be just around the corner when best friend...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 11th Century
In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress,...
- Location(s): Kent
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting...
The United States Of Adventure
- Location(s): United States (USA), United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Adventure, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Disillusioned with corporate London life and with no previous experience as a long-distance cyclist, Anna decides to clamber atop a beautiful pink bicycle (named Boudica) and set out on an 11,000-mile journey on her own, through each and every...
- Location(s): Ashland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Things are getting spooky in Catch Me If You Candy, the next delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series from author Ellie Alexander, set in Ashland, Oregon! Halloween has arrived in picturesque Ashland, Oregon, and all of the ghouls and...