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The Temple of Fortuna

The Temple of Fortuna
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD79

The final instalment in Elodie Harper’s Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy A courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Amara. How will her fortunes fall? Amara’s journey has taken her far, from...

The Temptation to Be Happy

The Temptation to Be Happy
  • Author(s): Lorenzo Marone
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days...

The Tides Between

The Tides Between
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Corbett
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, The Indian Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1840s

In 1841, on the eve of her departure from London, Bridie’s mother demands she forget her dead father and prepare for a sensible, adult life in Port Phillip. Desperate to save her childhood, fifteen-year-old Bridie is determined to smuggle a...

The Tiger Catcher

The Tiger Catcher
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance

Can true love ever die? Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everything changes after he has a fateful encounter with a mysterious young woman named...

The Tower

The Tower
  • Author(s): Flora Carr
  • Location(s): Perth and Kinross, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1560s

They are imprisoned, but not contained. Three women cross a loch. It is 1567, one of them is pregnant, two of them fretful. The boat takes them to Lochleven castle in the middle of the water. Awaiting them are...

The Trumpet Lesson

The Trumpet Lesson
  • Author(s): Dianne Romain
  • Location(s): Guanajuato
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s / 1960s

When Callie Quinn became pregnant at seventeen in 1960s rural Missouri, her outraged father, with her mother’s acquiescence, insisted that no one know–and Callie complied. She went away, and she gave up her baby. But not for their reasons....

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
  • Author(s): Helen Cullen
  • Location(s): Galway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1970s - 2015

On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family gathers. Maeve is an actor, struggling with her most challenging role yet – as a mother to four children. Murtagh, her devoted husband, is a potter whose...

The Turn of The Tide (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book #3)

The Turn of The Tide (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book #3)
  • Author(s): Alan Jones
  • Location(s): Germany, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941-1945 with additions from 2001

The Turn of the Tide is the third book in the Sturmtaucher Trilogy: a powerful and compelling story of two families torn apart by evil. As Hitler’s greed turns eastwards to the fertile and oil rich Soviet heartlands, life...

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mumbai, murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Rachel Joyce. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift...

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
  • Author(s): Eleni Kyriacou
  • Location(s): London, North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1954

THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can’t speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has...

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