- Location(s): Boston, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Michael Tanner is heading home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong laptop from security. What he doesn’t know is that the owner is US senator Susan Robbins, and her laptop contains top secret files...
- Location(s): London, Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. Maybe it’s time for The Switch… Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s...
- Location(s): Rhodes
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Set on a fictional island (Rhodes). For over half a century the beautiful Temple of Apollo has been in the care of the old beekeeper Gabrilis. But when the value of the land soars he is forced to sign...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1922 to 1982
It’s spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with...
- Location(s): Italy, The Mediterranean
- Era(s): 20th Century
The novel begins with a play on James’s The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf’s son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in war-torn Kabul, a harrowing yet tender novel – Bend it Like Beckham in a burqua – about one woman’s courage and guile in the face of tyranny. Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in Kabul, is summoned to...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
American student Bruno is on his research trip to Buenos Aires and he becomes steadily obsessed with tracking down an elusive and enigmatic tango singer, whose voice has never been recorded, yet apparently transcends the beauty of the tango...
- Location(s): Oahu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal-the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
‘I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart’. In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival – scratching numbers into his fellow...
- Location(s): Brisbane, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
A beautifully engaging novel set in the world of a boutique London tea shop. ‘I loved it – a perfect blend of sweet and spice.’ Jenny Colgan Kate Fullerton, talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest,...
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