- Location(s): Long Island, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
They’d left their daughter with us, their only child, and we hadn’t protected her. That was all they would see when they looked at us—that we had failed them. I count down the days until we can leave the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars ‘A delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women...
- Location(s): Lahore, London, Multan
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Multan, Pakistan. A conservative city where an unmarried woman over the age of twenty-five is considered a curse by her family. Ayesha is twenty-seven. Independent and happily single, she has evaded an arranged marriage because of her family’s reduced...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are no obvious suspects, she was not an obvious victim. She just wasn’t, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the...
Something of his Art: Walking to Lübeck with J S Bach
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1705
In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lübeck to visit...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
When love begins with a lie, where will it end? Doctor Tristan Ainsworth has returned with his family to the idyllic Cornish village close to where he grew up. The past has taught him some hard lessons, but he’ll...
Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): AD 595
In the late seventh century, the land that we now call Korea was embroiled with political and religious conflicts. Three kingdoms (Silla, Koguryo, and Paekche) fought for supremacy, and three faiths (Shamanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) battled for dominance. Princess...
- Location(s): Corfu, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns to the island … Melissa’s life...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early/Mid 20th Century
The novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s, 1930s
In South from Granada, Brenan chose to live in the small village of Yegen, in the mountains near Granada, well inland and a world away from the larger Andalucian towns. He rented an old home, and some characters who...
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