- Location(s): Le Cannet, Provence
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house overlooking the sea. In my mind’s eye, I have pictured a corner of paradise where friends can gather to swim, relax, debate, eat fresh fruits picked directly...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Opal Desert is the story of three women from different generations with unresolved issues in their lives who meet in the fictitious NSW town of Opal Lake. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband...
- Location(s): England, Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side....
- Location(s): Málaga
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The story is esssentiall set in Spain, Malaga on the Costa Del Sol, with roots in Budapest in earlier days – there a young member of a British covert team was brutally kicked to death. There are no witnesses...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1600s, Modern
Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must...
- Location(s): Peoria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutiae of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own...
- Location(s): Montmartre
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to No.12 Rue des Amants A beautiful old apartment block, deep in the backstreets of Montmartre. A place of twisting staircases, locked rooms, watchful eyes from every window. A place of murder. One resident is missing. And another...
The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone)
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1800s and Modern
12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone’s closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble – and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Dennis Milne is a former cop and part-time assassin. He kills the bad guys – people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. Now he’s in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who’s made some deadly...
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