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- Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...
- Location(s): Big Sur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to ‘get away to solitude again or die’, so he withdrew to a cabin...
- Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Lae 1930s
It’s 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco’s Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1960s
It is the Summer of Love, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. it’s further outside the law than Easy has ever travelled, but his daughter needs medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can borrow...
- Location(s): California, Chile
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can Katie Solve a Case of Chateau Murdeaux? Katie Stillwell focuses on two things in her life: work and practicing for Sommelier Certification with her blind tasting group. The exam was supposed to be the hardest part of her...
- Location(s): Salinas Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century onwards
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve...
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
- Location(s): California, Alaska, Colorado, Washington State
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
The second, highly anticipated novel from Carnegie-shortlisted author Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock. Come on a journey across the rural American West . . . Meet the teenagers who live in the small towns across these states, separated by distance, but whose...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): From 1770s to late 2000s
This novel takes you through various times, from 1778 up to 2009, and a number of characters who all intersect through the ages and a place in the Californian desert. A four-year-old autistic boy, Raj Matharu, disappears in the...
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