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The Out of Office Girl

The Out of Office Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and...

The Outlander

The Outlander
  • Author(s): Gil Adamson
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Boulton is nineteen years old, half mad, and widowed – by her own hand. Tearing...

The Pact

The Pact
  • Author(s): Dawn Goodwin
  • Location(s): Teddington
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“I’ll kill yours, if you kill mine.” Maddie’s life has come crashing down around her. Her husband has left her and moved on with a new woman and baby. No longer can she run from the past that’s been...

The Painted Girls

The Painted Girls
  • Author(s): Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

Three sisters, Antoinette, Marie and Charlotte – the story is told from the viewpoint of Antoinette and Marie, the family is without a father, the mother is oftentimes drunk. It revolves around ballet and Marie catches the eye of...

The Painted Kiss

The Painted Kiss
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hickey
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Late 19th century Vienna, café society, grand architecture and a lively artistic community, this is the imagining of the life between Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge, who was reputed to be his model for his painting “The Kiss”. The...

The Painter of Souls

The Painter of Souls
  • Author(s): Philip Kazan
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century

Beauty can be a gift…or a wicked temptation… So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in Renaissance Florence. He has a talent – not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can capture it, paint it....

The Painter’s Daughters

The Painter’s Daughters
  • Author(s): Emily Howes
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

1759, Ipswich. Sisters Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are the best of friends and do everything together. They spy on their father as he paints, they rankle their mother as she manages the books, they tear barefoot through the muddy...

The Painting

The Painting
  • Author(s): Alison Booth
  • Location(s): Sydney, Budapest
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1989 /1990

A young Hungarian woman confronts her family’s past in an engrossing quest for a stolen painting. When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not long before the break-up of the Soviet Union, she carries only a small...

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye
  • Author(s): Louis Bayard
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1831

West Point on the Hudson. A retired New York policeman is called to West Point Military Academy in 1831 to solve a gruesome murder and he seeks the help of cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, to help solve the case.

The Palm Oil Stain

The Palm Oil Stain
  • Author(s): Nadia Maddy
  • Location(s): Freetown, Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s/2000s

The Palm Oil Stain is a brutal tale of a woman’s journey of love and survival. Set against the backdrop of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone, Shalimar escapes an attack on her village assisted by a South African...

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