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The Gift of Rain

The Gift of Rain
  • Author(s): Tan Twan Eng
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Penang
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Before WW2 onwards

This is the story of Philip Hutton, as he grapples with his guilt and pain and the choices he had to make when the Japanese attacks Malaya and his home of Penang

The Gilded Lily

The Gilded Lily
  • Author(s): Deborah Swift
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1660s

Winter, 1661. In her short life Sadie Appleby has never left rural Westmorland. But one night she is rudely awoken by her older and bolder sister, Ella. She has robbed her employer and is on the run. Together the...

The Girl From Venice

The Girl  From Venice
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): Salò, Pellestrina
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

A World War II love story set against the romance and danger of occupied Venice. Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war. He’s happy to stay out of the way of the...

The Girl from Ithaca

The Girl from Ithaca
  • Author(s): Cherry Gregory
  • Location(s): Greece, Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): c. 1000BC

A Spartan war ship sails into Ithaca and two men arrive to demand the fulfillment of an oath. When Odysseus joins the Greek alliance against Troy, his little sister, fourteen-year-old Neomene, is thrust into a world she knows little...

The Girl in the Blue Coat

The Girl in the Blue Coat
  • Author(s): Monica Hesse
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): WW2

Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front...

The Girl in Times Square

The Girl in Times Square
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century. What if everything you believed about your life was a lie? Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke, struggling to finish college, pay her rent,...

The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door
  • Author(s): Amy Jo Cousins
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Charles “Cash” Carmichael traded his high-rise condo and family-firm career for a job coaching soccer for Chicago’s inner-city kids. He’s adjusting to living on minimum wage when his young cousin, newly out and running away from home, shows up...

The Girl who Broke the Rules

The Girl who Broke the Rules
  • Author(s): Marnie Riches
  • Location(s): England, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The pulse-pounding new thriller from Marnie Riches. For anyone who loves Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, this book is for you! When the mutilated bodies of two sex-workers are found in Amsterdam, Chief Inspector van den Bergen must find...

The girl who fell from the Sky

The girl who fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Simon Mawer
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Also known as Trapeze. Marian Sutro is a young woman recruited by the British Intelligence Service to go to occupied France and work with the resistance there and carry out a particular mission – essentially to encourage her first...

The Girl Who Just Appeared

The Girl Who Just Appeared
  • Author(s): Jonathan Harvey
  • Location(s): Liverpool, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2014/1981

London 2014. Holly Smith has never fitted in. Adopted when just a few months old, she’s always felt she was someone with no history, the girl who just appeared. All she has is the address of where she was...

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