- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG? On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily Chen is attempting to live the American dream in New York City. But her scientist parents imagined so much more for her when they...
- Location(s): Cornwall, England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Location is based on the author’s house, possibly Cornwall. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very...
- Location(s): Cardiff
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian
Synopsis for ‘Rebecca’s Choice’ This novel is in the genre of romantic historical fiction. Set in South Wales in the late Victorian era, it focuses on a young woman’s struggles with love and passion. Further themes are meteorology, railways,...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Tom Gallagher is traumatized by the past, an FBI agent in control of a disastrous operation, haunted by the guilt of innocent deaths. Back in Ireland, hoping for a fresh start and a chance to re-establish his relationship with...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 Red April evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in Peru’s history, shocking for its corrosive mix of assassination, bribery, intrigue, torture, and enforced disappearance – a war...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 2: Áróra Investigation series When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night, he discovers that his house has been ransacked, and his wife Gudrun missing. A letter on the kitchen table confirms that she has been kidnapped....
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1980s
In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance from his work unit and...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s, 1980s
Live Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of the music scene converge to save the world. But the TV glitz cannot disguise ugly truths about Thatcher’s Britain. Jon Davies and Suzi Scialfa have moved on since the...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
THE SERIAL KILLER A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave – her body...
- Location(s): Mexico, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben...
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