What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?
- Location(s): Jerusalem
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
A man seeks out the Hamas bomber who changed his family s life in this unflinching, mesmerizing literary debut. David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
From rainy England… Katie never imagined her life was perfect. But when she finds herself on a rainy street, soaked to the bone and with only a cheating boyfriend and a dead-end job keeping her in town, she knows...
- Location(s): Padstow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s and 2020s
How well do you know your children? And how well do they know you? When Helen Whitmore’s stepson brings home a new girlfriend one evening, her already imperfect family begins to tip towards breaking point. Diana is smart, beautiful,...
- Location(s): Java, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 / post WW2
For readers of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World...
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Outback speech pathologist, Mia Windsor, believes her morning from hell is over. Then suited-up, city-boy Kade Reid strides into her office and announces he and his wide-eyed niece are the clients that she will be living with for the...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
‘Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son’. Younes’ life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle. Re-named Jonas, he grows up in...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Egypt
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A multi-cultural infusion following a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings in downtown Toronto, and the secrets they hide. Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artists and daughter of Vietnamese parents is in love with her best friend Carla, a bi-racial bicycle...
- Location(s): Dartmouth, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Eloise Hamilton is a Londoner born and bred, so it is a momentous day when she reluctantly agrees to uproot to Dartmouth, leaving behind her perfect world so her husband can finally live in his. There are compensations, however....
- Location(s): Tel Aviv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1946
In April, 1946 Evelyn Sert, a 20-year-old East End London hairdresser, sets out for Palestine. “This is my story”, she writes, “Scratch a Jew and you’ve got a story”. Evelyn’s story in Linda Grant’s When I Lived in Modern...
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