- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
A crime thriller that takes you around the Museums in New York! Again there is a murder which is investigated by Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. There are several twists in the relationship...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1929
Paris, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream – he’s getting paid to troll the cafes and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a...
- Location(s): Europe, Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice, she’s a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets...
- Location(s): Belley, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s, 1930s
Saigon in the 20s, Paris in the 30s, this is the story of loss and exile. Paris in the household of Gertrude Stein, and Saigon the homeland. A touchingly evocative novel.
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1959/60
Penelope Fitzgerald’s wonderful Booker-nominated novel. This, Penelope Fitzgerald’s second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
**Take a trip to the Yorkshire village of Burley Bridge, where a very special little cookbook shop is about to open its doors…** In the beginning… Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are...
The Bookshop That Floated Away
- Location(s): England, Staffordshire
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra’s barge. It asked for a £30,000...
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Aussie Outback realism, this is a Sunday Times Bestseller. Joe Cashin is sent to the outback to recuperate from a botched stake out. Based in Port Munro a wealthy citizen is beaten to death in his home. Three teenage...
- Location(s): Bologna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. It’s a controversial...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
A group of Japanese “mail order” brides arrive in California in the 1920s – from their journey to America, through marriage, work, childbirth and motherhood, until they and their entire communities are rounded up at the beginning of the...










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