- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are an atheistic anti-establishment American professor of the sixties...
- Location(s): Buckinghamshire
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR . . . Christmas is fast approaching at the new Hope Farm. Owner Molly Baker has been convinced to organise an open day to raise some much-needed funds ahead of the...
- Location(s): Jeddah
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The crime: one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach: soon afterwards a Western woman’s husband vanishes without trace. The place: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the City...
- Location(s): Cape Town, Dunedin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1868
Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiance to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown...
- Location(s): Berkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
An Uncle Fred novel Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Crime
A quiet summer holiday in t the picturesque Yorkshire Dales was just what Millie needed. No excitement, fresh air and huge helpings of her Grandmother’s home cooking. But Millie is drawn into an intriguing mystery that surrounds the isolated...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott’s new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
We decided to add this book because many of us will get to our destinations via flying and it touches down at various points. In the spirit of books like “Waiter Rant” and “Kitchen Confidential”, blogger and flight attendant...
- Location(s): Brighton, The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama. Rose has it all – the gorgeous children, the husband, the beautiful home. But then her best friend Polly comes to stay. Very soon, Rose’s cosy world starts to fall apart...
- Location(s): Val d'Isere
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Val d’Isere is a beautiful, beguiling and deadly place. Snow storms, avalanches and accidents are the least of the dangers that the skiers and boarders who live there have to face. James, a new ski guide in the resort,...
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