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The Ingredients of Love

The Ingredients of Love
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The day begins like any other Saturday for beautiful Parisian restaurateur Aurélie Bredin, until she wakes up to find her apartment empty – her boyfriend gone off with another woman. Heartbroken, Aurélie walks the streets of Paris in the...

The Inmate

The Inmate
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A missing child. A desperate father. A terrible secret. Guido T has already confessed to two horrific child murders and led Berlin police to the bodies. The police are sure he is also the kidnapper and murderer of six-year-old...

The Inn at Rose Harbor

The Inn at Rose Harbor
  • Author(s): Debbie Macomber
  • Location(s): Washington State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the minute she sees the Rose Harbour Inn, Jo Marie Barlow knows that this is the place that will help her find the peace she craves. And if the inn can comfort her, surely it can offer the...

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad
  • Author(s): Mark Twain
  • Location(s): Europe, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1860s

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his “Great Pleasure Excursion” on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS...

The Institution

The Institution
  • Author(s): Helen Fields
  • Location(s): Somewhere isolated
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Brilliant! The Institution is a harrowing, nonstop story that will grab you from the first page and not let go. Helen Fields is a master of suspense. You’ll consume it in one sitting.’ – International bestselling sensation JEFFERY DEAVER...

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats
  • Author(s): Hesh Kestin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1963

It’s New York, 1963, and college student Russell Newhouse has just made the acquaintance of notorious Jewish gangster Shoeshine Cats. Cats wants a tiny favour. And – for his own reasons – he also wants to educate Russell in...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Spinalonga
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s/60s, Modern

On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother’s past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

The Kill

The Kill
  • Author(s): Richard House
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo. A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects. The strangest thing: the murder seems to have been inspired...

The Killer in Room Five

The Killer in Room Five
  • Author(s): Sam Holland
  • Location(s): Basingstoke
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is Louisa Scarr writing as Sam Holland A terrible confession In an isolated room in Hollowpines, an infamous psychiatric hospital, Joe Sinclair is confessing to a violent murder. An impossible crime Locked away, Joe couldn’t possibly have killed...

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