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The Infinite Terrace

The Infinite Terrace
  • Author(s): Lindy Viandier
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern Day

How far must you travel to find the way back to yourself? Young widow Elinor Edwards leaves her family in Wales to seek solace amid the rugged scenery of the Amalfi Coast, where she and her husband once spent...

The Inheritance

The Inheritance
  • Author(s): Cauvery Madhavan
  • Location(s): Beara Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1986 / early 1600s

It’s 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O’Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When...

The Innocent and the Dead

The Innocent and the Dead
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One woman found dead. Another kidnapped. Two cases. Two books. One overworked Scottish detective. When the body of an attractive young woman is found in woodland on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that she had...

The Island of Missing Trees

The Island of Missing Trees
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Nicosia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern back to 1974

It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek...

The Island of Sea Women

The Island of Sea Women
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): Jeju
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s to present day

A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean...

The Italian Flame

The Italian Flame
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Dorset, Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s / contemporary

Dorset, 1965: twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in...

The Joyce Girl

The Joyce Girl
  • Author(s): Annabel Abbs
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1928 Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music, literature and dance. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer, training with some of the world s most...

The Kimono Tattoo

The Kimono Tattoo
  • Author(s): Rebecca Copeland
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fictional dangers become real to American translator, Ruth Bennett, in this high-octane multicultural thriller. Recently returned to her childhood home in Kyoto, after losing her job in the United States-and her marriage-Ruth was hoping her new job would offer...

The Kitchen

The Kitchen
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women … as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the...

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Labyrinth of the Spirits is the fourth book in Zafón’s wonderful The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change...

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