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The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch
  • Author(s): Donna Tartt
  • Location(s): Las Vegas, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Told as a retrospective through the eyes of 13 year old Theo Decker based in Manhattan, where he lives with his mother. His father – a seemingly alcoholic degenerate – walked out on them the previous year. On a...

The Good Suicides

The Good Suicides
  • Author(s): Antonio Hill
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Young, free and … dead Senior staff at Alemany Cosmetics company come home with a secret after a team-building course in a remote country house. Now, they are committing suicide, one by one. Soon, they may all be dead....

The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris

The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Charlie Howard – mystery writer and professional thief – is flush with the success of his Paris book reading when he agrees to show a novice the basics of the trade by breaking into the man’s own apartment. Trouble...

The Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas

The Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Charlie Howard – mystery writer and incorrigible thief – is in for a tough vacation in Las Vegas. Losing heavily at poker is one thing, but to find his literary agent, Victoria, being charmed by the Fifty-Fifty casino resort’s...

The Gown

The Gown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1947, 2016

London, 1947: Besieged by a harsh winter, burdened by shortages and rationing, the people of post-war Britain are suffering despite their nation’s recent victory. For Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman...

The Grand Scuttle

The Grand Scuttle
  • Author(s): Dan van der Vat
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. However, few people are aware that Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter became the only man in history to sink his own navy because of a misleading report...

The Greek Escape

The Greek Escape
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Greece, Hydra, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Before every new beginning, there must be an ending . . . Running from heartbreak, Chloe Marston leaves her old life in London for a fresh start in New York. Working at a luxury concierge company, she makes other...

The Greek House

The Greek House
  • Author(s): Dinah Jefferies
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Corfu, 1934 The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the scent of jasmine, the green shutters of her family’s home — and her brother Billy’s tragic disappearance years before. Returning to the Greek house, high...

The Group

The Group
  • Author(s): Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator), Sigge Eklund
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hanna moves to Spain for an internship at the prestigious Prado gallery, she finds herself spending her days buried in the museum’s stifling archives, and her nights alone in a tiny rented flat. Then one day she sees...

The Guernsey Girls

The Guernsey Girls
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

January 1936. After the hard work of being a maid at Wallington Manor in the lead-up to Christmas, Annie is very excited at the prospect of going home to Bethnal Green. She has missed her family, but the money...

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