- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900s-1960s
One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough’s magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Location(s): Dejima
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young...
- Location(s): Elba
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE THOUSAND LIGHTS HOTEL is the gorgeous new novel from Emylia Hall, author of Richard & Judy Summer Pick THE BOOK OF SUMMERS. Set in idyllic Italy, it’s the perfect holiday read, for fans of Louise Douglas and Hannah...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1927
The stunning, epic new novel from Tom Franklin, the Gold Dagger Award winning author, writing with his wife, prize-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly
The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico
- Location(s): Puerto Rico
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. For eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, the struggle for independence is a...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes. In...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern, back to 1950s
When her aunt Shirley dies, Dawn finds herself back in her claustrophobic home town in Northern Scotland for the first time in years. She spends her days caring for her small daughter, listening to tapes of old country songs...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1896-1962
Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), “The Toss of a Lemon” brings us intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India we’ve never before seen.Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow’s...
- Location(s): Patagonia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Some people stop at the water’s edge. Some keep going… Biologist Angela Haynes is accustomed to dark, lonely nights as one of the few humans at a penguin research station in Patagonia. She has grown used to the cries...
The Towers of Silence (Raj Quartet 3)
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
The third in the Raj Quartet and each novel overlaps with the previous. It continues the story of the last days of British rule in India, told generally from the perspective of the British in India. The character of...
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