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The Marrying of Chani Kaufman

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
  • Author(s): Eve Harris
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Golders Green/Hendon. Chani is a 19 year old young woman, who lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, and is bound to marry a stranger....

The Martian

The Martian
  • Author(s): Andy Weir
  • Location(s): Houston
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the Habitat breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. If...

The Master of Bruges

The Master of Bruges
  • Author(s): Terence Morgan
  • Location(s): Bruges
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century

Master painter Hans Memling is without peer in the artistic world of fifteenth-century Bruges. But when he falls in love with the Princess Marie, daughter of his powerful patron, the Duke of Burgundy, his life begins to unravel. Made...

The Mirror Man

The Mirror Man
  • Author(s): Lars Kepler
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Five years ago, Jenny Lind was abducted on her way home from school. Now her lifeless body is found hanging in a playground. But there is no evidence and only one witness – a man who cannot remember what...

The Perfect Lie

The Perfect Lie
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Falmouth, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense… For Lucy Riddick, Venice has always been the dream destination. A dream inspired by the pretty picture pinned to...

The Red Door

The Red Door
  • Author(s): Rosa Fedele
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1983

It is 1983 and the new owner of the beautiful old Sydney mansion ‘Rosalind’ begins to believe she is being watched by the mysterious resident in Number Three, a reclusive man who happens to share his name with two...

The Room By The Lake

The Room By The Lake
  • Author(s): Emma Dibdin
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Caitlin left London for New York, she thought she’d left her problems behind: her alcoholic father, her dead mother, the unrelenting pressure to succeed. But now, down to her last dollar in a strange city, she is desperately...

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
  • Author(s): Jérôme Ferrari
  • Location(s): Algiers, Corsica, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The mysterious disappearance of Hayet, the manageress of the village bar, presents a conundrum for its owner, who cannot face a return to the days of late nights, lewd customers and greasy dishwater. A succession of would-be hosts and...

The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky
  • Author(s): Paul Bowles
  • Location(s): North Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The Sheltering Sky is a 1949 novel of post-colonial alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles. The story centers on Port Moresby and his wife Kit, a married couple originally from New York who travel...

The Siege

The Siege
  • Author(s): Ismail Kadare
  • Location(s): Albania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by...

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