- Location(s): The Sundarbans - Bay of Bengal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh,.. focuses on The Sunderbans – a vast archipelago of islands lying below Calcutta on the gulf between India and Bangladesh. Two travellers travel into the area – Piya, an American scientist of Indian...
- Location(s): West Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘The Hurting: The Glasgow Terror’ finds Gus Thoroughgood recovering from injuries received in his adventures in ‘Parallel Lines: The Glasgow Supremacy’ and wondering whether to continue his career in the Glasgow Police force. Having handed in his resignation, he...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Read the number one Scandinavian crime bestseller taking the world by storm Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more than one hundred knife...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
If you liked Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy, Henning Mankell’s Wallander series or Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole, you might also like Magnus Sandberg, a Londoner returning to Scandinavia to bury his estranged father, only to discover that he has been...
- Location(s): The Dolomites
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue. In the far north of Italy lies the valley of the ice-cream makers: about a dozen villages where, for...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in Karakarook, (NSW, pop.1374) a fictional Australian country town with a population of 1,734, the book is about two Sydneysiders-Harley Savage and Douglas Cheeseman-finding themselves and each other. Savage is a tall, bulky and reserved middle-aged woman. Married...
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep – a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is...
- Location(s): Kassel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer’s mission will be to transform...
The Importance of Being Kennedy
- Location(s): East Coast USA, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
A brilliant novel by Laurie Graham set in wartime London, which follows Kick Kennedy, sister of future US President JFK, as she takes London society by storm. Nora Brennan is a country girl from Westmeath. When she lands herself...
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