Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1999
Faith Bass Darling is the sole occupant of the family mansion in Bass, Texas. She is succumbing to Alzheimers and on the last day of 1999 hears the voice of God and starts hauling the family antiques out of...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The course of Frank Mackey’s life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Living semi bankrupt in France wasn’t the dream I’d fantasied about. Homesick and disillusioned, I knew something had to change, but what? It seemed like a good idea at the time. I had seen all those TV programmes. The...
Fall from Grace (Martha’s Vineyard 1)
- Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Adam Blaine returns to Martha’s Vineyard out of duty rather than grief, after his father – bestselling author and celebrated human rights activist Benjamin Blaine – falls to his death. Having been estranged from his father for ten years,...
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th century
For eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju, family life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing day-long games of cricket in the street. Everything changes...
- Location(s): Florida, Tehran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Ashley Dartnell’s mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
The Amalfi coast in Italy with its delightful villages, beaches and sunshine hides a darker secret. When Marsha and Milly arrive for a friend’s anniversary celebration, they hardly expect to find themselves embroiled in the search for a serial...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s no ordinary summer for DCC Bob Skinner, as murder mystery leaps from the page into reality in the nineteenth volume of Quintin Jardine’s outstanding cop series. It’s August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing....
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
It is the year 1937, and Lord Carpenter, Governing Director of Affiliated Publications, decides, against the wishes of the Premier and the opinion of the entire staff of the Mercury, that it is time to declare war on Russia....
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a...
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