- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Managua, New Orleans, Nicaragua
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
When Maria returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather’s funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother’s past. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother inaction, once a storied revolutionary,...
- Location(s): Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
NOTE: This is the same as The Nigerwife Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband, a palatial house in the heart of Lagos and a glamorous group of friends. She left London and a troubled family past...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
William Larnach, New Zealand politician, married his much younger third wife, Constance de Bathe Brandon, in 1891. With the backdrop of Larnach Castle, on Otago Peninsula, there is increasing attraction between Conny and Dougie, Larnach’s son from his first...
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