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The Bone Vault

The Bone Vault
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • 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...

The Bones of Paris

The Bones of Paris
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • 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...

The Book of Madness and Cures

The Book of Madness and Cures
  • Author(s): Regina O'Melveny
  • 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...

The Book of Salt

The Book of Salt
  • Author(s): Monique Truong
  • 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.

The Bookshop

The Bookshop
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • 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...

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane
  • Author(s): Ellen Berry
  • 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

The Bookshop That Floated Away
  • Author(s): Sarah Henshaw
  • 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...

The Broken Shore

The Broken Shore
  • Author(s): Peter Temple
  • 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...

The Broker

The Broker
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • 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...

The Buddha in the Attic

The Buddha in the Attic
  • Author(s): Julie Otsuka
  • 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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