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You Lied First

You Lied First
  • Author(s): Annabel Kantaria
  • Location(s): Oman, Cheltenham
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The truth is, everyone lies. All that matters is who lies the best… Sara is about to spend a week in a villa with people she barely knows. She’s been invited to join her daughter, Liv, her boyfriend and...

Zeitoun

Zeitoun
  • Author(s): Dave Eggers
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2005

In August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic...

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner
  • Author(s): Scott Barfield
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner is the humorous memoir of an ex-academic who traded professional security for a new start as a B&B owner in central Brighton. The book, in recounting the true stories of sharing...

Zone Defence

Zone Defence
  • Author(s): Petros Markaris
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

One hot Summer’s day in Athens, a restauranteur is killed and Haritos is charged with finding his killer.

Zoo Station: Adventures in East and West Berlin

Zoo Station: Adventures in East and West Berlin
  • Author(s): Ian Walker
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

1980s Berlin. The life, the loves, the politics, the struggle of the Turks in Kreuzberg – this is a true depiction of “Alt-Berlin”

One Cornish Summer

One Cornish Summer
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This novel was the #TFBookClub pick for July/August 2018.  The book club discussion is on this link. Against the beauty of Cornwall, a story of two women struggling with their past: one cannot remember hers, the other cannot forget…...

The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is Barcelona, 1945, post war, and a boy, Daniel awakes and can no longer remember his Mother’s face. Daniel’s widowed father, who deals in antiquarian books, introduces him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books – each book waiting...

The Thread

The Thread
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th and early 21st Centuries

From the fly leaf: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafogou’s home in Asia Minor is destroyed by...

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...

The Shadow Year

The Shadow Year
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): Glossop, The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and Modern

1980. On a hot summer’s day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions...

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