- Location(s): Adelaide
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
‘Will you marry me?’ I think of you, then. I think of you every day. But usually in the quietest part of the morning, or the darkest part of the night. Not when my boyfriend of two years has...
- Location(s): Durham, The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead...
Pilgrims: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her – he’s been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic...
- Location(s): Jordan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
Several stories are interwoven, set at the time of the British Mandate. At the centre is Maha and her love for her husband.
- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected,...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Bristol
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1938-1958
Italy, 1938. Mussolini is in power and war is not far away . . . Clara and Pippo are just children: quiet, thoughtful Clara is the older sister; Pippo, the younger brother, is forever chatting. The family has only...
- Location(s): Pittsburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
Pittsburgh has recently been called `the most liveable city in America’ – yet the old image of smoky skies and steel mills spewing forth grit has never quite disappeared. Its history as a dirty industrial centre is part of...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1972
Places in Time was named Best Travel Book of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association and won the Gold Award by the Western Region of the Society of American Travel Writers. For years readers have delighted...
Fictional Holt, Colorado, is the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone’s business before that business even happens. In a way, that’s true of the book, too. There’s not a lot of suspense here, plot wise: you can...
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