- Location(s): Italian Riviera
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Grace Quinn loves her job at Cohen’s Convenient Storage Company, finding occasional treasure in the forgotten units that customers have abandoned. Her inquisitive nature is piqued when a valuable art collection and a bundle of letters and diaries are...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Urban Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the bush, south of Sydney, among the beach goers, walkers and picnickers, a menace grows. The mysterious Bledray monsters are preparing for a Gathering; a feast of epic proportions. Only the Afflür Hunter and Guardians can stop them,...
- Location(s): Winchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1930s
It is 1932, and the’ losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fianc’ and her brother and regarded by society as a’ surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to escape...
- Location(s): Ayr
- Genre(s): Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary
Some secrets should never be kept… Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive. Widowed with a young child, after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love. Then he...
- Location(s): Herat, Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s to 2000s
At times this can be a harrowing book, in which the author paints brutal scenes but it always retains, especiallythrough the characters of Mariam and Laila, a humanity, tremendous spirit and love. They overcome the challenges that have faced...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his ‘great trudge’, a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote A Time of Gifts, the sparklingly original account of...
- Location(s): Northern Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1972
Clara’s sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Seven-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents’ efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered....
- Location(s): Williamsburg
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
This is a New York classic about a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, evocative of this area of New York (Williamsburg) and describes the experience of people immigrating into the city. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a...
- Location(s): Dordogne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
For all those who imagine escaping to a château and living the dream . . . to find that even dreams can have their complications. Steph, Jo and Meredith have been friends since school. Their lives have all taken...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
University professor Josef Held has never recovered from the loss of his beloved wife – and has no intention of ever letting anyone new into his quiet, safe world. It is a world where the clock ticks steadily in his mathematics...