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The Heart Keeper

The Heart Keeper
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you mend a broken heart? It’s been three months since Alison Miller-Juul’s world fell apart when her six-year-old daughter, Amalie, died in an accident. Three months of sympathy cards, grief counselling and gritting her teeth, but it’s...

The Heart of Man

The Heart of Man
  • Author(s): Jón Kalman Stefánsson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once again has...

The Heat of the Day

The Heat of the Day
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Bowen
  • Location(s): Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II. Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown...

The Helper

The Helper
  • Author(s): David Jackson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

From the back cover: A grisly murder in a New York bookstore seems to hold a special significance for Detective Callum Doyle: the victim’s been marked with a message… Then the sinister phone calls start. Doyle is told more...

The Hideaway

The Hideaway
  • Author(s): Nikki Allen
  • Location(s): Osa Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE TRIP OF A LIFTIME? When five strangers are chosen for an all-expenses-paid stay an exclusive retreat, they leap at the chance to rest and get away from it all amidst the lush Costa Rican rainforest. OR THE HOLIDAY...

The Hired Man

The Hired Man
  • Author(s): Aminatta Forna
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Fictional Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs...

The History Room

The History Room
  • Author(s): Eliza Graham
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction

After her soldier husband is seriously injured and her marriage begins to fall apart, Meredith Cordingley returns to teach at Letchford, the grand Cotswold private school run by her father, who outwardly appears to be a typically English headmaster....

The Holiday

The Holiday
  • Author(s): Erica James
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Torn between struggling to live up to the expectations of being a Modern Woman and ridding herself of the effect of a repressed upbringing, Izzy Jordan would be the first to admit that it’s time to take stock of...

The Hotel

The Hotel
  • Author(s): Louise Mumford
  • Location(s): Cardiganshire, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Four of them went to the hotel Four students travel to Ravencliffe, an eerie abandoned hotel perched on steep cliffs on the Welsh coast. After a series of unexplained accidents, only three of them leave. The fourth, Leo, disappears,...

The Hotel Riviera

The Hotel Riviera
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine a sunny sea-lapped cove, gift wrapped in blue and tied with a bow like a Tiffany Box, and you’ll get the feel of my little hotel. It’s a place made for Romance with a capital R. Except for...

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