- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1948/1949
‘Smile, nod, and don’t breathe a word of what happens here. Or I’ll put you on the next train to Auschwitz myself.’ Four years later. Hanni Winter shivers in her thin coat as she hurries through the empty Berlin...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Michigan, 1985. The drowning of a teenage girl causes ripples in the small town of Kettle Lake, though for most the waters settle quickly. For sixteen year old Joanne Kennedy, however, the tragedy dredges up untold secrets and causes...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
While Vigàta is wracked by storms, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is called to attend the discovery of a dismembered body in a field of clay. Bearing all the marks of an execution style killing, it seems clear that this is,...
- Location(s): Pretoria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma’s funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for —...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1918
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Regency (1760-1820)
SHE PLAYS BY HER OWN RULES. Few can know the mysterious woman called the Queen of Fives. A talented hustler in silk and furs, she tricks fortunes from unscrupulous men with five signature moves. Masquerading as a wealthy debutante,...
The Railway Girls In Love (The Railway Girls Book #3)
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War II
Love is in the air, and together the railway girls can overcome even the hardest of times. Mabel has finally put the past behind her, and her relationship with the dashing Harry is stronger than ever. That is, until...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It is raining non-stop over Paris. The Malegarde family – split between France, London, and the US – is reunited for the first time in years. When Paul, a famous yet withdrawn arborist, suffers a stroke in the middle...
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