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- Location(s): Kabul, Paris, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one… Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1969
Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of...
- Location(s): Kabul, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s to 2000s
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini’s deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s,...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Niamh Greene’s delightful fifth novel A Message to Your Heart is an intriguing and heart-warming story for fans of the wise humour of Catherine Alliott and the modern day fairytales of Cecelia Ahern. Throw in Niamh’s unique brand of...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, California
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The new novel from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The MomentBrendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he’s a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because...
- Location(s): London, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller, Time Slip
San Francisco, 2017. Clinton’s in the White House, Brexit never happened – and Verity Jane’s got herself a new job. They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer,’ and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older brother has been stabbed to death, his body left out in the road to rot. He was never involved. He was innocent. He didn’t even carry a gun. And...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...
- Location(s): Big Sur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to ‘get away to solitude again or die’, so he withdrew to a cabin...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Lae 1930s
It’s 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco’s Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls...
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