The World According to Bertie (#4 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother’s influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to life. Written as both a recollection of the past, and as a warning for...
- Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
London lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha’s Vineyard for a summer holiday, hoping for peace after her father’s murder. However, the discovery of a pirate shipwreck and its rumored treasure disrupts her plans. When two salvagers are killed and...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1950s
Noir, many threads and a gripping read. Ed Loy, Private Investigator returns to Dublin to bury his Mother. He begins to wonder what happened to his Father, a missing husband and a fired gun. Secrets from the past begin...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1880s
A year after Jack the Ripper claimed his last victim, Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime and murder, with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed...
The Year of Living Dangerously
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Jakarta: 1965. Smelling of petrol, frangipani, kretek cigarettes, hatred and fear, the city waits as racial tension mounts. It is The Year of Living Dangerously. As each day passes, East and West alike wait for the explosions to begin...
- Location(s): India, Sheffield
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of...
- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Old enemies join forces in a deadly game of political hardball and techno-terror spanning the Pacific. A vengeful Japanese industrialist, an ambitious and amoral First lady, and a top Korean assassin threaten to tile the balance of world power....
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): WW2
What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska – and not Israel – had become the homeland for the Jews after the Second World War? In Michael Chabon’s Yiddish-speaking ‘Alyeska’, Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the...
- Location(s): Florida, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s, 2000s
1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood. Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when,...
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