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Between the Sierra and the Sea

Between the Sierra and the Sea
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

It’s January 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Elizabeth, a young English girl decides to remain in Spain when the rest of her family return to the peace of England. Alone in the devastated city of Malaga she makes friends...

Beyond Evidence

Beyond Evidence
  • Author(s): Emma L Clapperton
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In an alley way of the back streets of Glasgow there lies a decomposing corpse of a slain female baking in the midday heat. No one has found her yet, but medium Patrick McLaughlin knows she is there. It...

Big Summer

Big Summer
  • Author(s): Jennifer Weiner
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The No. 1 New York Times bestselling author returns with an unforgettable novel about friendship set during a disastrous wedding on picturesque Cape Cod. Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue...

Bittersweet

Bittersweet
  • Author(s): Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One perfect family. Too many perfect lies. In every glossy picture of the American society pages, there’s an Ev Winslow. Disarmingly beautiful, and – naturally – tall, athletic, with a smile that’s perfect. Small-town Mabel Dagmar has never known...

Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hunter
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Dead women are showing up in the desert east of San Diego, and no one understands why. When the story comes to the attention of reporter Natalie Ellis, she can’t help but make comparisons to the tragic deaths she’d...

Bloody Miami

Bloody Miami
  • Author(s): Tom Wolfe
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

What sex was to Sigmund Freud, status is to Mr Wolfe: the ultimate drive. In this, his first novel in eight years, Magdalena, the girlfriend of his protagonist, Nestor Camacho, an officer with the Miami Marine Patrol, longs to...

Blooms of Darkness

Blooms of Darkness
  • Author(s): Aharon Appelfeld
  • Location(s): Chernivtsi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1940s

Hugo is the child in this book,set in the early 1940s. The Jews of Chernivtsi have been concentrated in a ghetto and some, including Hugo’s father, have been deported to labour camps. Hugo’s Mother – in order to save...

Blue Hour

Blue Hour
  • Author(s): Sarah Schmidt
  • Location(s): Victoria, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew must come, when they will walk out on her husband Leon and a...

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage
  • Author(s): Michelle Betham
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Thirty-something Geordie girl Aimee Anderson has just been dumped by her fiancé, Robbie – on the night of their engagement party. So, in an attempt to get over both the relationship, and the rather embarrassing way in which it...

Bordeaux Housewives

Bordeaux Housewives
  • Author(s): Daisy Waugh
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Bordeaux Housewives is a romantic comedy combining a heady mix of sunshine, sex, Sancerre and secrets. When an ordinary English family swap dreary suburbia and the rat race for the glorious countryside of France they have no idea just...

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