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The Immortalists

The Immortalists
  • Author(s): Chloe Benjamin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From 1969

It’s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young...

The Leavers

The Leavers
  • Author(s): Lisa Ko
  • Location(s): The Bronx, China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Masterpiece

The Masterpiece
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1928 and 1974

Takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women strive to make their mark on a world set against them. In 1928 25 year-old Clara is a talented illustrator, with dreams...

The Murder of the Century

The Murder of the Century
  • Author(s): Paul Collins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New York State
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1890s

On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon...

The Reykjavik Assignment

The Reykjavik Assignment
  • Author(s): Adam LeBor
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

International thriller from renowned political journalist Adam LeBor, taking us behind the scenes in the corridors of power. UN covert negotiator, Yael Azoulay, has been sent to Reykjavik to broker a secret meeting between US President Freshwater and the...

The Tenants of Moonbloom

The Tenants of Moonbloom
  • Author(s): Edward Lewis Wallant
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/70 and early 2000s

Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can’t even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom...

Three-Martini Lunch

Three-Martini Lunch
  • Author(s): Suzanne Rindell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

In 1958, Greenwich Village buzzes with beatniks, jazz clubs, and new ideas the ideal spot for three ambitious young people to meet. Cliff Nelson, the son of a successful book editor, is convinced he s the next Kerouac, if...

Up in the Old Hotel

Up in the Old Hotel
  • Author(s): Joseph Mitchell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his...

Wilderness

Wilderness
  • Author(s): Beverley Jones
  • Location(s): Grand Canyon, New York City (NYC), Utah, Yosemite
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two weeks, 1,500 miles and three opportunities for her husband to save his own life. It isn’t about his survival – it’s about hers. Shattered by the discovery of her husband’s affair, Liv knows they need to leave the...

Brooklyn

Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Enniscorthy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman’s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities...

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