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Once You Know

Once You Know
  • Author(s): Madeleine Van Hecke
  • Location(s): Arizona, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the dry heat of her Arizona home, feisty, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti thrust the letter into the back of a drawer. Her plan: ignore the fault line until the tremors pass. But her husband’s betrayal is far worse than...

One Beats the Bush

One Beats the Bush
  • Author(s): Riall Nolan
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Vietnam vet Max Donovan discovers his war-time buddy has been accused of murder. Suspecting his friend has been framed and unable to come up with the bail money, he must solve the case himself. The feathers of a rare...

One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century

One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century
  • Author(s): Roland Schimmelpfennig
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Translated by Jamie Bulloch One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and...

One Italian Summer

One Italian Summer
  • Author(s): Pip Williams
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their...

Original Sins

Original Sins
  • Author(s): Erin Young
  • Location(s): Des Moines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It’s a tough time and a tough place...

Our London Lives

Our London Lives
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Clerkenwell, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1979 - 2017

1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all...

Our Man In Kuwait

Our Man In Kuwait
  • Author(s): Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • Location(s): Kuwait
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960

A colonial-era thriller set against the background of big power conflict. The ultimate timepiece tinderbox of sun, sex and spies. Kuwait 1960. With Soviet backing Iraq plans to invade. Gordon Carlisle lives in the expat community of Ahmadi with...

Overland

Overland
  • Author(s): Yasmin Cordery Khan
  • Location(s): Europe, Central Asia, India, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: the open road, London to Kathmandu, just three young people looking for adventure. No one could have predicted the way it ended, and for fifty years the truth has...

PACIFIC DASH – From Asia Vagabond to Casino King

PACIFIC DASH – From Asia Vagabond to Casino King
  • Author(s): Chet Nairene
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969 to mid-1990s

Young American Dashiell Bonaventure wanders Southeast Asia for two decades, falling in love and lust, saving a life and having his own saved. He meanders the vice dens, beaches and back alleys of Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and...

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0
  • Author(s): Chet Nairene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New Jersey, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current Day

Brilliant but shallow New York businessman Lew Clarke gets in over his head after partnering with a quirky SE Asian company located beyond the Golden Triangle. in this harrowing but delightful fantasy, calamities begin to strike his American customers,...

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