- Location(s): Paris, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII and 1993
Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people of...
- Location(s): Antibes, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Not every door should be opened . . . With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris Secret is an intense and gripping tale from bestselling author Karen Swan. Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In recent years, Naples has been the subject of countless books, films and TV series, making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality, if it exists at all. As Naples becomes the most filmed city in Italy, where...
The Pearl that Broke its Shell
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2007 looking back
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima...
- 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...
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