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The New Yorkers

The New Yorkers
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is about people, about the Upper West Side in New York City, and about the effects of dogs on people. A beautifully crafted book – Central Park where dog and dog owners congregate and everyone has a...

The Next Round

The Next Round
  • Author(s): Eva Frances
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 6 years

Shaken and stirred. Five years is a long time between drinks for old friends. Meet Andreia Herrera. Strong-willed and foul-mouthed. A PR executive, but a writer and designer at heart. Generous but stubborn. Judgy, by her own admission. Shaken...

The Night before Christmas

The Night before Christmas
  • Author(s): Scarlett Bailey
  • Location(s): Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

All Lydia’s ever wanted is a perfect Christmas… So when her oldest friends invite her to spend the holidays with them, it seems like a dream come true. She’s been promised log fires, roasted chestnuts, her own weight in...

The Night Ferry

The Night Ferry
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, The English Channel
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Alisha Barba’s dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school...

The Night of the Miraj

The Night of the Miraj
  • Author(s): Zoe Ferraris
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears from her home in Jeddah just days before her arranged marriage, desert guide Nayir is asked to bring her home. But when her battered body is found,...

The Night Villa

The Night Villa
  • Author(s): Carol Goodman
  • Location(s): Pompeii, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to AD 79

The eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers...

The Nightmare

The Nightmare
  • Author(s): Lars Kepler
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Stockholm, Sweden: the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered on an abandoned boat. Later, a man is found hanging alone in his apartment. Should the deaths be treated as suicide or murder? Only four people know the...

The Nile Cruise

The Nile Cruise
  • Author(s): Caroline James
  • Location(s): Upper Egypt
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will an adventure sailing The River Nile turn the tide for Hattie? Hattie Mulberry is exhausted. Worn out from the demands of everyone around her, she’s long overdue a break. So, she decides to take a holiday – the...

The Novel in the Viola

The Novel in the Viola
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

This book starts off with Elise in her Austrian days, in Vienna, having a lovely time in the early thirties. Swiftly the story picks up at Tyneford House, a mansion on the south coast of Englan, where she is...

The Occasional Virgin

The Occasional Virgin
  • Author(s): Hanan al-Shaykh
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean, reminiscent of their childhoods in Lebanon. Yvonne doesn’t know what she’s doing wrong, either there or back in London where she runs...

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