- Location(s): Queensland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1958
1958. When It-girl Vivienne George flees on the eve of her wedding she seeks refuge in a scheduled lodge surrounded by the lush rainforest of tropical North Queensland. There, she is relieved to find that the small farming town...
- Location(s): Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1980, 1998 and 2018
Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman who may be able to crack this cold case. In a rural Wiltshire town lies The Devil’s Corridor. A road which has witnessed eerie happenings from unexplained deaths to the sounds of...
- Location(s): Florida Panhandle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Adela Woods tells her parents she’s pregnant, they immediately send her a thousand miles away to stay with her grandmother in Padua Beach. The intention is that she will leave her baby in ‘the forgotten Panhandle of Florida’....
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Fifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo. His job? To collect broken glass.His life? Wasted. His hope? To find a future he can believe in . . .
- Location(s): Bad Münstereifel, Cologne (Köln)
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
The first death Seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard. As she backs away in horror, she steps on broken glass. The second death Then blood appears on her doorstep – blood, and broken glass. The third...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Beatrice Colin’s The Glass House is a gorgeously transporting novel filled with turn-of-the-century detail and lush blooms, about two women from vastly different worlds Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch’s life hasn’t gone the way she planned. She and her husband,...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), India, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 19th century onwards
Beginning in 1885, with the British invasion of Mandalay and the capture of the Burmese king and queen, and encompassing over 100 years to modern-day India and Burma (Myanmar), Amitav Ghosh has created in The Glass Palace a monument...
The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope #5)
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation. But when one of them goes missing, her path leads her to more than a missing friend ....
- Location(s): Kottayam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion...
- Location(s): The Salton Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the...
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