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Women of War

Women of War
  • Author(s): Louise Morrish
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War One

Edie Lawrence has never been one to play by the rules. As war in Europe is declared, she disguises herself as a soldier and enlists with a London regiment, with the aim of becoming the first woman to report...

Quicksand of Memory

Quicksand of Memory
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The darker the memory, the deadlier the obsession… Jenna is trying to rebuild her life after a series of disastrous relationships. Luke is struggling to provide a safe, loving home for his deceased partner’s young son, following a devastating...

Betrayal

Betrayal
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When aid worker Úrsula returns to Iceland for a new job, she’s drawn into the dangerous worlds of politics, corruption and misogyny … a powerful, relevant, fast-paced standalone thriller. ____________________ Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around...

The House on Buzzards Bay

The House on Buzzards Bay
  • Author(s): Dwyer Murphy
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As they hurtle into midlife, Jim and his closest college friends get together to rekindle the bonds of their friendship in his family’s beautiful, generations-old vacation home along Buzzards Bay. But what begins as a restorative seaside escape takes...

Last Apartment in Istanbul

Last Apartment in Istanbul
  • Author(s): Defne Suman
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2020s

I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved. Pericles Drakos...

Trains and Lovers

Trains and Lovers
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Imagine you’re on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences you’ve all had. But there is one more thing that you undoubtedly...

Bitter Sweet

Bitter Sweet
  • Author(s): Hattie Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘In my life, there are things that have happened to me, and things that I have done, that have proven to be moments that have a clear before and an after. One of those moments, perhaps in some ways...

Secrets of Villa Eden

Secrets of Villa Eden
  • Author(s): Amanda Lees
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary /1942

The grand painted arches and turquoise tiles in front of me exactly match those in the photograph in my hand. I’ve found my beloved aunt’s villa. The place she loved – and feared. And the place she tried so...

Summer Hours

Summer Hours
  • Author(s): Alessandra Thom
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin’s life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve. When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a...

A Walk in the Park

A Walk in the Park
  • Author(s): Natalie Kleinman
  • Location(s): Greenwich
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ever since she was a teenager, twenty-nine-year-old Daisy Shepherd has been thrilled to be able to walk dogs for a living. And with a supportive mother and stepfather, she thinks she has everything she needs. But when her birth...

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