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Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
  • Author(s): Catherine Mack
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for. Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating art...

Everyone in the Group Chat Dies

Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
  • Author(s): L M Chilton
  • Location(s): Crowhurst
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything: – Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s). – Her dead-end job. – Her sleazy landlord....

Go Gentle

Go Gentle
  • Author(s): Maria Semple
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Upper West Side
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and contented divorcée, she relishes her teenage daughter, her job as a moral tutor for an old-money family, and the bliss of finally being solo. She’s also quietly assembling...

Goodnight Tokyo

Goodnight Tokyo
  • Author(s): Atsuhiro Yoshida, Haydn Trowell (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matsui is the driver of a taxi the colour of the night sky. Every night between the hours of 1 am and 4.30 am, Matsui guides his taxi around the streets of Tokyo, collecting passengers and their stories. Seen...

Grey Souls

Grey Souls
  • Author(s): Philippe Claudel
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Looking back to WW1

A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, Grey Souls is a mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. The placid daily life of a small town near...

Half Blood Blues

Half Blood Blues
  • Author(s): Esi Edugyan
  • Location(s): Berlin, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1990s

Charles C. Jones – Chip – and Sidney Griffiths, have been friends since they were children the STates. They find themselves in Berlin at the start of WW2, jazz musicians in a band whic inludes Hieronymous Falk, who is...

Her

Her
  • Author(s): Harriet Lane
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Two women; two different worlds. Emma is a struggling mother who has put everything on hold. Nina is sophisticated and independent – entirely in control. When the pair meet, Nina generously draws Emma into her life. But this isn’t...

Hey, Joe

Hey, Joe
  • Author(s): Ben Neihart
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A novel first serialised in the New Yorker…Joe Keith is a sorted, gay 16 year-old, meandering through a late-summer’s day in New Orleans. Drinking Bourbon, smoking reefers and kissing strangers – Joe’s night out will change his world forever.

I Heart London

I Heart London
  • Author(s): Lindsey Kelk
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Angela’s back on home turf — and in her biggest romantic scrape yet! Angela Clark has fallen in love with New York — and it’s starting to love her back. But when she’s summoned home to England, she’s at...

Isolation Island

Isolation Island
  • Author(s): Louise Minchin
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

IT’S A PRIZE ANYONE WOULD KILL TO WIN… Ten celebrities have arrived to take part in the most gruelling – and lucrative – reality survival show ever devised: two weeks completely alone on a remote Scottish island, in the...

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