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The Grammarian

The Grammarian
  • Author(s): Annapurna Pothuri
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anjali is a young woman disfigured from polio at an early age and this is her storyl

The Grave Tattoo

The Grave Tattoo
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • Location(s): London, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern, various

A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune. It’s summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be...

The Great Game

The Great Game
  • Location(s): Central Asia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 19th Centur

For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it ‘The Great...

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
  • Author(s): F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

1920s, Long Island. In part a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an...

The Great Railway Bazaar

The Great Railway Bazaar
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Central Asia, South East Asia
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux’s account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes – the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden...

The Greater Journey – Americans in Paris

The Greater Journey – Americans in Paris
  • Author(s): David McCullough
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1830-1900

The Greater Journey focuses on the period between 1830 and 1900, when hundreds of Americans–many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, John Singer Sargent and Harriet Beecher Stowe–migrated to Paris. McCullough shows...

The Green Remains (Nora Tierney Mystery)

The Green Remains (Nora Tierney Mystery)
  • Author(s): Marni Graff
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

American writer Nora Tierney is living at Ramsey Lodge in England’s glorious Lake District, anticipating two life-changing events: the publication of her first children’s book and the birth of her first child. Choosing a name for her son and...

The Green Shore

The Green Shore
  • Author(s): Natalie Bakopoulos
  • Location(s): Greece, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

This is a very vivid picture vivid picture of Greece, in part the one of white washed walls and hot pine needles, the sea…. but there is also more detailof the relationships and what was going on in the...

The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay

The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay
  • Author(s): Annie Robertson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Conteporary

When Emma sees The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay for sale, she knows it’s the seaside haven she needs to recover from a recent trauma. But as soon as Emma collects the keys, her dream of owning a successful guesthouse...

The Guests

The Guests
  • Author(s): Nikki Smith
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The resort of their dreams. A destination to die for… WELCOME TO PARADISE! Or so the staff say when they greet the Hamiltons at the idyllic Asana Fushi resort in the Maldives. And it starts off that way: champagne...

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