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The Astral

The Astral
  • Author(s): Kate Christensen
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent...

The Athenian Connection

The Athenian Connection
  • Author(s): Graham Bishop
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Pierre Rousseau and his partner Greek detective Antonia Antoniarkis prevent the illegal export of a valuable Greek 14th century icon.

The Barefoot Queen

The Barefoot Queen
  • Author(s): Ildefonso Falcones
  • Location(s): Madrid, Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 18th Century

1748, Seville: Caridad, a former Cuban slave, wanders the streets of the city. Forced to leave behind her young son, she has just arrived by boat to forge a new life for herself in Spain. When she meets Milagros...

The Beach Cafe

The Beach Cafe
  • Author(s): Lucy Diamond
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Evie, mid 30s finds herself in a bit of a rut. Her sisters have got themselves ‘well sorted’ lives. Aunt Jo is killed in a traffic accident and has left her cafe in Cornwall to Evie and she takes...

The Beach Volcano

The Beach Volcano
  • Author(s): Nigel Featherstone
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After years of estrangement, Canning Albury, a revered and irreverent singer-songwriter, returns home to celebrate his father’s eightieth birthday. His welcome is mixed, at best. But Canning has made the trip for more than just a glass of Pol...

The Bed I Made

The Bed I Made
  • Author(s): Lucie Whitehouse
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

I haven’t given up on you and I’m not going to. It’s time to stop playing hard to get now. When Kate meets a dark, enigmatic man in a Soho bar, she doesn’t hesitate long before going home with...

The Beholders

The Beholders
  • Author(s): Hester Musson
  • Location(s): Hertfordshire
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child of the widely admired Liberal MP Ralph Gethin. Four...

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar
  • Author(s): Sylvia Plath
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s...

The Bellini Card

The Bellini Card
  • Author(s): Jason Goodwin
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1840s

Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals,...

The Bellwether Revivals

The Bellwether Revivals
  • Author(s): Benjamin Wood
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as...

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