- Location(s): Rotorua
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Cassy smiled, blew them a kiss. ‘See you in September,’ she said. It was a throwaway line. Just words uttered casually by a young woman in a hurry. And then she’d gone. It was supposed to be a short...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Before the #MeToo movement, there was the 1970s and three girls – Tessa. Athena, Jenny looking for love, best friends, and what they want to be. Breaking traditional roles, there are challenges from parents, the church, school. But there’s...
- Location(s): Beirut
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Adam and his family flee Syria and arrive at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Conditions in this overcrowded Palestinian camp are tough, and violence defines many of the relationships: a father fights to save his daughter, a gang...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Ice and Crime Book 4) A retired, reclusive woman is found on a bitter winter morning, clubbed to death in Reykjavik’s old graveyard. Detectives Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún face one of their toughest cases yet, as they try to...
Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery
- Location(s): Lazio, Bomarzo
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1920's
Seeking inspiration in the timeless Italian landscape, four unlikely misfits find their destinies entangled in the meanders of the mysterious sculpture garden of Bomarzo, peopled with freaks and monsters. Daphne, a writer with a hashish habit, Clive, American gigolo...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): 15th Century
Have you ever wondered about who Botticelli chose to depict in his immortal painting Birth of Venus? Was she a real person, his model or his mistress? Most people recognize her image, but few can name her. Even fewer...
- Location(s): Zadar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An evocative meditation on longing and buried resentment, set in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar. Ivona has returned to her childhood home to care for her father. While there, she reconnects with the man she divorced over ten...
- Location(s): El Salvador, Mexico
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘If there’s any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic.’ Rumaan Alam Young Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States. For this to happen, he must embark on a three-thousand-mile...
Someday Everything Will All Make Sense
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): present day
Someday Everything Will All Make Sense follows Luther van der Loon, an eccentric harpsichordist and professor of early music, as he navigates the stages of grief after the untimely death of his mother. Luther obsesses over burial practices, rails...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1921
Alaska was calling! LaVerne’s dream was to follow the poet Robert Service’s footsteps to the wilds of Alaska. At sixteen she was already writing her own music and believed that her talent could only flourish on the back trails...










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