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Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Greece, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

An irresistibly indulgent novel about identical twins, an autocratic tycoon, and the sensual, sophisticated Greek seaside. Greek tycoon Alex Kristidis will do anything it takes to prevent his brother marrying pop star Susie Hamlin, and Susie’s twin sister Leah...

Mixed Blood

Mixed Blood
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The two faces of Cape Town: The sunny cosmopolitan part of Cape Town, where europeans hang out without a care: the other side where life is a huge struggle and no way out. Violence is the norm Camps Bay....

Mocha, Moonlight and Murder

Mocha, Moonlight and Murder
  • Author(s): MaryAnn Kempher
  • Location(s): Reno
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Instead of feeding her late-night appetite, a midnight food run nearly gets 28-year-old Katherine O’Brian killed. She’s the only person to see the man who brutally murdered a local woman, and the killer is hell-bent on making sure she...

Mockingbird

Mockingbird
  • Author(s): Julie Trimingham
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cuba. Music. Love. Theft. An out-of-work actress travels to Havana in search of purpose. Her entanglements there are filled with mixed motivations, selfishness and altruism, love and peril, faith and disaster. Mockingbird charts the hurricane-fraught course of Mia’s journey...

Moloka’i

Moloka’i
  • Author(s): Alan Brennert
  • Location(s): Moloka'i
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, dreams of seeing far-off lands, but at the age of seven Rachel’s dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from the family, she’s...

Monique and the Mango Rains

Monique and the Mango Rains
  • Author(s): Kris Holloway
  • Location(s): Mali
  • Era(s): Modern

Monique Dembele saves lives and dispenses hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Her unquenchable passion to improve the lot of the women and children in her West African village is matched by her buoyant humour...

Monkey Grip

Monkey Grip
  • Author(s): Helen Garner
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In Monkey Grip, Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living – and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate...

Monsoon Summer

Monsoon Summer
  • Author(s): Mitali Perkins
  • Location(s): Berkeley, Pune (Poona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jasmine (Jazz) lives in Berkeley, CA and is the child of an Indian Mother and a white Father. At 15 she is already running a small business with Steve, taking photos of tourists in front of Landmarks. Jazz’ Mum...

Montecristo

Montecristo
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Video journalist Jonas Brand is on a rail journey from Zurich to Basel when stock trader Paolo Contini appears to throw himself from the train to his death. Brand sets his footage of the aftermath of the incident aside...

Moon Cutters

Moon Cutters
  • Author(s): Janet Woods
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1840s

1840. Miranda Jarvis would do anything to protect her sister – so when Lucy comes down with a fever, she thinks nothing of stealing a loaf of bread from a local landowner. After all, things can’t get much worse:...

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