- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in the fictional town of Ely, New Hampshire. Being married to a pilot has taught Kathryn Lyons to be ready for emergencies, but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock on her door and the news of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
One boy. One street. One summer he will never forget. A powerful and poignant debut from a compelling and authentic voice in commercial fiction. It’s 1963. Billy Driscoll and his best mate, Peter ‘Rooksy’ Rooker, have the run of...
- Location(s): Puerto Banús, Scotland, Spain
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
‘Rich, famous and notorious. Raul Sanchez Fuente scores 3 out of 3.’ When she agrees to help out a friend, Estelle Connolly doesn’t expect to end up as an escort to a society wedding – or to catch the...
- Location(s): Austria, Swiss Alps
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1926
The book is divided into two parts: It is 1926, and the main character, Christine Hoflehner, in her late 20s, works as a lowly postal clerk in a small Austrian village. She has lost her father and her brother...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind. She lives on a tiny Greek island, married to a local man, mother to two small sons. Year on year, island life has followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm. Until now. An...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and...
- Location(s): Sweden, Uppsala
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When the mutilated body of tropical fish collector John Jonsson is discovered in Uppsala the police are baffled – he may not have been a saint, but who would want to kill him, and in such a brutal way?...
- Location(s): Karachi
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
On an unusually cold December evening in Karachi, American journalist Jon Friedland is kidnapped from one of the city’s poshest neighbourhoods. His captors plan to post a video of his execution on Christmas Day. The kidnapping has come at...
- Location(s): London, Monaco
- Era(s): Post WW2
Francis is having dinner in London with his longtime lover, Arnold, when they find a man shot and wounded. Francis uses his wartime medical skills to keep the man alive. M. Joubert, who owns a casino in London, and...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Four friends, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it’s no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise works like a charm – until they kidnap the wrong man....
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