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The Chateau

The Chateau
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They thought it was perfect. They were wrong… A glamorous chateau Aura and Nick don’t talk about what happened in England. They’ve bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay...

The Chef

The Chef
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): St Moritz, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich’s leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is...

The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the world are all brought to life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our...

The China Bird

The China Bird
  • Author(s): Bryony Doran
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This novel portrays the brugeoning relationship between a man with a deformed spine, who has lived a quiet and rather repressed life, and a talented female art student who asks him to model for her.

The Clepsydra Stopped

The Clepsydra Stopped
  • Author(s): Ashley Prowse
  • Location(s): England, Zanzibar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A young woman living in Zanzibar meets an older, married man on a visit. The attraction is strong and mutual: she seduces him, but he is a willing victim. They embark on a brief but passionate affair that marks...

The Client

The Client
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell...

The Color of Tea

The Color of Tea
  • Author(s): Hannah Tunnicliffe
  • Location(s): Macau (Macao)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Grace Miller and her husband move to the island of Macau, because his work takes him there. She decides to open a café where she serves tea, coffee, and macaroons, and meets and works with some people she ends...

The Columbus Affair

The Columbus Affair
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Prague, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 15th Century and modern

Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun – literally. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation. And – what hurts most – he knows the story which ruined...

The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

A dark novella from the master storyteller. Mary and colin are in Venice, struggling with their relationship, and they chance upon Robert. Introducing them to his wife Caroline, it becomes clear that something more sinister is at play.

The Commandments

The Commandments
  • Author(s): Óskar Gudmundsson, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): North Iceland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The victim is someone she had pursued earlier in her career – and had never been able to pin down. Now a killer has taken the law into their own hands and meted out brutal retribution for ancient crimes....

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