- Location(s): New Orleans, Saint-Domingue (Saint Domingo)
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Hot, sultry passion blooms on a lush Caribbean island, but is it real? The drums warn of trouble on the island of Saint-Domingue as Elene prepares to be wed to a groom she barely knows. To soothe her fears,...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Belgium, Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A young Cambodian returns home. A diamond shipment goes missing. A foreign assassin arrives in Phnom Penh. And then there s chocolate lots of it. Phirun is determined to make it as Cambodia s first chocolate chef. But things...
Picture Her Dead (#8 Rhona MacLeod )
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Picture Her Dead is Lin Anderson’s eighth novel in the Rhona MacLeod series, which follows a Scottish forensic scientist as she navigates brutal murders and family drama in the criminal underworld of Glasgow. As ever, the vibrant characterisation of...
- Location(s): Oxford, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2002
Approaching his fiftieth birthday, actor Toby Flood arrives in Brighton for the final performances of Lodger in the Throat following a ten-week regional tour. The tour had not gone well, with a hoped-for West End transfer unlikely to eventuate....
- Location(s): Norway, Ariège, Sandefjord, The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2010s
It was meant to be your daughter’s first sleepover. Now it’s an abduction. Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, her mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round...
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
- Location(s): Moldova (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): 1990s
A bet is placed and Hawks travels to Moldova where he attempts to beat each member of the national football first team at tennis. This is a wry, funny and sometimes poignant experience of Moldovans, as they grapple with...
- Location(s): Seoul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Literally translated from the Korean, the title means “I entrust Mother to you”. In this book a mother goes missing in Seoul and her family (daughter, son and husband) is left trying to find her. The narrative, as the...
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Late 2000s
The women of Point, Click, Love might not be from NYC, but they navigate the ups and downs of love, marriage, dating, and children in a way that’s fresh and edgy. Told from four viewpoints in alternating chapters, Shapiro...
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
THe Khmer Rough came into being in the 1950s, becoming infamous for ruthlessness and guerrilla tactics. During the height of power they are thought to have murder 2 millioin people in the late 1970s. 1979 they were forced out...
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