- Location(s): London, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
First class is about to get dangerous . . . Pure Air’s new LuxeLiner is flying from London to LA – its inaugural journey – with a first-class cabin packed with A List celebrities. As the feuding crew compete...
Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
From Hindu notions of dirt, South Asia’s preference for women leaders to patronage in democratic politics, the author resolves many of the paradoxes of contemporary India in this book.
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Monsignor Quixote is the village priest, elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, who travels to Madrid in a Seat 600, together with his best friend Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village. Set in La...
- Location(s): Monte Carlo, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1960s
It is the Monaco Grand Prix in May 1968. Jack Preston, a mechanic for Team Sutton, is making the final checks on his car as the beau monde mingles with the drivers under the eyes of the world’s press...
Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops: it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new....
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Rob MacGregor, hired to recapture the declining audience for a daytime gardening programme, quickly becomes Britain’s latest heartthrob. The only trouble is, Rob’s co-presenter is not at all pleased to see his thunder stolen. Nor is Rob’s longterm girlfriend,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The City of Light is anything but light when a killer stalks the cobblestone streets… For a woman who loves fashion, there is no place on earth more exciting than Paris where the clothes are to die for and...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Mystery
The third installment in the Maggie Newberry mysteries, this book takes the reader further into the sleepy little French town of St-Buvard, where Maggie and Laurent discover not one but four murders to spice up their tenure in Provence....
- Location(s): Calgary
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Calgary, Alberta – City of oil barons and equestrians: saints and sinners: the exquisitely rich and the desperately poor… and murderers. Detective Chris Crane knows all these worlds. He knows the high stakes games played by the politicians and...
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
London set mystery, around the Northern Line. ‘This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail.’ Dorothy...
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