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After Hannibal

After Hannibal
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set amidst Umbria’s landscape of desires and memories, a cast of characters collide in a web of deceit, greed and fallibility. At the centre of these overlapping stories is the cunning lawyer, Mancini, who has an unerring ability to...

After the Crash

After the Crash
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • Location(s): France, Jura Mountains (Switzerland), Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s/1990s

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one...

After You Die

After You Die
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): Waku Kungo, Peterborough
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The previous summer she had logged a number of calls detailing the harassment she and her severely disabled teenage daughter were undergoing. Now she is dead – stabbed to death whilst Holly Prentice has been left to starve upstairs....

Agatha Raisin and the Witches’ Tree

Agatha Raisin and the Witches’ Tree
  • Author(s): M C Beaton
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Cotswolds inhabitants are used to bad weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Harris, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They...

Airport

Airport
  • Author(s): Arthur Hailey
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Only available second hand, but still a great novel set at O’Hare aiport. It is an intense, and detailed look at a few people’s lives over a period of a few hours – airport staff, airline crews, passengers, relatives.

Alex

Alex
  • Author(s): Pierre Lemaitre
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost – beautiful, resourceful, tough – may be no ordinary victim, but her time is...

Alif the Unseen

Alif the Unseen
  • Author(s): G Willow Wilson
  • Location(s): United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

This is a compelling and bewitching first novel, perfect for book groups, that mixes old world magic with modern adventure. Welcome to the Empty Quarter, the domain of Djinn, ghouls, demons and the effrit who take the shapes of...

All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry

All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry
  • Author(s): Alex James
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex...

All Grown Up

All Grown Up
  • Author(s): Jami Attenberg
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Andrea is a single, childless 39-year-old woman who tries to navigate family, sexuality, friendships and a career she never wanted, but battles with thoughts and desires that few people would want to face up to. Told in gut-wrenchingly honest...

All Her Secrets

All Her Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2003 and 2023

PAXOS, GREECE 2003 A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND 2023 Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to...

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