- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills – the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain’s pride and misery,...
- Location(s): Balkans, Paris, Thessaloniki (Salonika)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
Salonika 1940, Constantine Zannis the central character, policeman working on sensitive cases. As the war draws closer he becomes more involved in spying and Allied agent. He assists in the escape of Jews from Germany, to Turkey, and to...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Canadian-born David Szalay won both the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber prizes for his debut, London & the South-East. In Spring, his third novel, he analyses the relationship between two youngish Londoners – James, who is ready for love,...
- Location(s): St Thomas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910s
A Girl. A Deserter. An Island full of Spies. At the height of the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro arrives in the Danish West Indies to live with her Aunt Esther, a bad tempered spinster, and her houseful...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn...
- Location(s): County Cork, Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Dominique (‘Domino’) lives a charmed existence as wife to one of Ireland’s most successful businesssmen, Brendan Delahaye – until the day Brendan disappears, leaving his company in disarray and Domino and their daughter alone to face the music. STAND...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1960s to present day
Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard’s smile. The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift. Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps because he does not drag babies to the sales. The...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s a fine line between admiration and envy. Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted...
- Location(s): Chappaqua, Rochester
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
” Girl meets dog in this effervescent “feel-good debut” (People) Savannah “Van” Leone has been in love with Peter Clarke since their first day of college. Six years later, Peter is marrying Van’s best friend, Janie. Loyal to a...
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