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Sleeping Arrangements

Sleeping Arrangements
  • Author(s): Madeleine Whickham (Sophie Kinsella)
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Chloe needs a holiday. She’s sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain – perfect. Hugh is not a happy...

Snow White Must Die

Snow White Must Die
  • Author(s): Nele Neuhaus
  • Location(s): Taunus
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On a wet November day, Detectives Pia Kirchoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to the scene of a mysterious accident. A woman has fallen from a bridge onto the motorway below. It seems that she may have been...

Someone

Someone
  • Author(s): Alice McDermott
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her...

Summer House with Swimming Pool

Summer House with Swimming Pool
  • Author(s): Herman Koch
  • Location(s): Netherlands, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous. When his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, invites him and his family on holiday, Marc finds that he can’t refuse. But by the time the suntans fade,...

The Alienist

The Alienist
  • Author(s): Caleb Carr
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist,...

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (Corduroy Mansions)

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (Corduroy Mansions)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): MOdern

Back in Pimlico, in the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited to the service of MI6 by a beguiling lady...

The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century onwards

This story is split into two sections: in the first Edward Pepper is a German exile who falls in love with his doctor, Sally who is English. The second takes place at The Roundel, where Edward and Sally are...

The First Thing You See

The First Thing You See
  • Author(s): Gregoire Delacourt
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine you are a young mechanic living in a small community in France. You own your own home, and lead a simple life. Then, one evening, you open your front door to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing in...

The Golden Couple

The Golden Couple
  • Author(s): Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Golden Couple is an addictive page-turning psychological thriller from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors of the bestselling The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, that will keep you guessing to the very end. Marissa and...

The Greatcoat

The Greatcoat
  • Author(s): Helen Dunmore
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): 1950s

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to...

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