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the Improper Life of Bezellia Grove

the Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
  • Author(s): Susan Gregg Gilmore
  • Location(s): Nashville, Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking...

The Infirmary

The Infirmary
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 2014

No man is an island…​ In the stifling summer heat of 2014, a killer has been stalking the streets of Newcastle causing city-wide panic. When the officer in charge of the case turns up dead, it falls upon Detective...

The Innocent (David Szalay)

The Innocent (David Szalay)
  • Author(s): David Szalay
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A well researched book about an extraordinary environment and how it affects the lives of ordinary people doing ordinary things with huge consequences. About ordinary people going about their daily lives against a thunderous state backdrop.

The Interestings

The Interestings
  • Author(s): Meg Wolitzer
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

‘Every summer we sit like this. We should call ourselves something.’ Ash Wolf said. ‘Why?’ said Goodman, her older brother. ‘So the whole world can know just how unbelievably interesting we are?’ On a warm July night in 1974...

The Interpreter From Java

The Interpreter From Java
  • Author(s): Alfred Birney
  • Location(s): Netherlands, Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II & Present Day

Alan Nolan discovers his father’s memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised. In this unsparing family history, Alan distils his father’s life in the Dutch East Indies into one furious utterance. He reads about his...

The Invention of Curried Sausage

The Invention of Curried Sausage
  • Author(s): Uwe Timm
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

The Invention of Curried Sausage” by Uwe Timm is a melancholy read of friendship and coincidence. The inventor of sausage with curried ketchup which is still one of the most popular burger van menu items in Germany.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  • Author(s): Brian Selznnick
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlock with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo’s...

The Invisible Mountain

The Invisible Mountain
  • Author(s): Carolina de Robertis
  • Location(s): Argentina, Uruguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women...

The Invisible Web

The Invisible Web
  • Author(s): Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Freiburg, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): contemporary

A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Bonì. “Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times” Sunday Times In a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it’s more...

The Invitation

The Invitation
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Rome, 1950s. One fateful night, Hal Jacobs meets Stella, a beautiful society darling from New York. To Hal, flailing in the post-war darkness, she’s a point of light. They’re from different worlds, but both trying and failing to carve...

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