- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was a person after all, but she was suspended in mid-air. Abi’s heart began to thump against her ribcage as the full horror of what she was seeing became apparent. Her shrill scream pierced the silence, startling birds...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Jessica, a grieving widow, inherits an antique mall from her mother she also inherits the stallholders, an elderly, amoral, acquisitive, and paranoid collection. When one of the vendors, a wily ex-con named Roxy, shoots her ex-husband, she calls...
- Location(s): California, Oregon, Washington State
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive...
- Location(s): Nablus, West Bank
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
First published 1976 Surrounded by burned-down orchards and people seemingly resigned to their fate, a young Palestinian man named Usama returns to his homeland after working in the Gulf for some years. Now an operative in the resistance movement,...
- Location(s): Italy, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Mid1800s and Modern
Two extraordinary women – 150 years apart – search Europe for a special perfume, and their own secret hearts for the thing that matters most…. The perfume is legendary, once worn by Cleopatra and Empress Josephine — and made...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Serialised initially as three short ebooks, this is the stunning compilation of all three brought together. Isla’s got the designer clothes and dream job as head stylist at the most exclusive salon in Edinburgh. The fact that she’s been...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife’s students with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, he thinks little of...
Will Do Magic for Small Change
- Location(s): Benin (Danhomè), Paris, Pittsburgh
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Late 19th century, Modern
Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But at 5’10’’ and 180 pounds, she’s theatrically challenged. Her family life is a tangle of mystery and deadly secrets,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
It’s October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, Jeanne, and the young daughter he hasn’t seen growing up. He is not coming back from the front line but from...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001 looking back
The story opens in 2001, when sisters Nina, both in their 40s, are facing major life changes. Fact and fiction are interwoven into the story as they look back over their Father’s life in Russia










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