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The Evolution of Fear

The Evolution of Fear
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. Wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit, his best friend has just been murdered and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed...

The Familiar

The Familiar
  • Author(s): Leigh Bardugo
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump...

The Foremost Good Fortune

The Foremost Good Fortune
  • Author(s): Susan Conley
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2007

American writer Susan Conley moves to Beijing with her husband and two young sons. A few months later she receives the diagnosis of breast cancer.The book is set against the fascinating backdrop of modern China, and offers up insight...

The Forgotten Summer

The Forgotten Summer
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The annual grape harvest at the Cambon family’s magnificent vineyard is always a cause for celebration. But not this year. When an accident destroys the crop, leaving the estate facing ruin, Clarisse Cambon knows exactly who to blame –...

The Fourth Courier

The Fourth Courier
  • Author(s): Timothy Jay Smith
  • Location(s): Poland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly become an international case when it’s feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct...

The French For Murder (Lady Eleanor Swift #10)

The French For Murder (Lady Eleanor Swift #10)
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1923

Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France for the season. She plans to do what a glamorous lady abroad should: long lunches on the balcony followed by...

The Frequency of Us

The Frequency of Us
  • Author(s): Keith Stuart
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II and the present

In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the newly married...

The Garden of Angels

The Garden of Angels
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s, 1990s, and contemporary

At his beloved Nonno Paolo’s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The...

The Gathering Storm (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book 1)

The Gathering Storm (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book 1)
  • Author(s): Alan Jones
  • Location(s): Kiel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1933-1940

Kiel, Northern Germany, 1933. A naval city, the base for the German Baltic fleet, and the centre for German sailing, the venue for the upcoming Olympic regatta in 1936. The Kästners, a prominent Military family, are part of the...

The German Girl

The German Girl
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Helsingør, Malmö
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary - Looking back to WWII

‘Our parents were taken. And if we go home, the Nazis will take us too…’ Hamburg 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta is hurrying home from school with her twin brother Jurgen. The mood in the city is tense – synagogues have...

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