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The Perfect Wife

The Perfect Wife
  • Author(s): J P Delaney
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present looking back 5 years

“There’s something I have to explain, my love,” he says, taking your hand in his. “That wasn’t a dream. It was an upload.” Abbie wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. The man...

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • Author(s): Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six—an entrancing novel “that speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all” (Kirkus Reviews), in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top...

Wilderness

Wilderness
  • Author(s): Beverley Jones
  • Location(s): Grand Canyon, New York City (NYC), Utah, Yosemite
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two weeks, 1,500 miles and three opportunities for her husband to save his own life. It isn’t about his survival – it’s about hers. Shattered by the discovery of her husband’s affair, Liv knows they need to leave the...

And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed
  • Author(s): Khaled Hosseini
  • 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...

The Girls

The Girls
  • Author(s): Emma Cline
  • 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...

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner
  • Author(s): Khaled Hosseini
  • 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,...

A Message to Your Heart

A Message to Your Heart
  • Author(s): Niamh Greene
  • 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...

Afraid of the Light

Afraid of the Light
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • 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...

Agency

Agency
  • Author(s): William Gibson
  • 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...

All Involved

All Involved
  • Author(s): Ryan Gattis
  • 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...

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