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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by...

The Travelers

The Travelers
  • Author(s): Chris Pavone
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will Rhodes is an award-winning correspondent for The Travelers, on assignment at a luxury Argentinian resort – fine wines and gourmet food, polo fields and the looming Andes. But Will’s life is about to be turned upside down when...

The Whispering Wind

The Whispering Wind
  • Author(s): Lexa Dudley
  • Location(s): Italy, Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Whispering Wind is a moving story of two lovers, set on the beautiful island of Sardinia, where Elise goes on holiday to escape a loveless and violent marriage. Whilst there, she meets and falls in love with Beppe,...

Two Women in Rome

Two Women in Rome
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two

A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan. In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever… Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited to begin her new job as an archivist. When she discovers a...

Watching Over Her

Watching Over Her
  • Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Frank Wynne (Translator)
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In an Italian monastery, an infamous sculptor lays on his death bed. During Mimo’s final hours, he reveals his life story: his impoverished childhood, his unlikely rise to fame and most importantly, his meeting with Viola, the daughter of...

The Damascus Cover

The Damascus Cover
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • Location(s): Damascus, Cyprus, Jerusalem
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he...

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands, Norway, The Somme
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

By Norway’s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was...

A Body At The Tearooms (Kate Palmer #3)

A Body At The Tearooms (Kate Palmer #3)
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nurse Kate Palmer has only been living in Lower Tinworthy, a beautiful little village by the sparkling Cornish sea, for a short time but she’s already making a name for herself as the local Miss Marple. Although not everyone is keen...

A Quiet Death in Italy

A Quiet Death in Italy
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Bologna: city of secrets, suspicion… and murder A dark and atmospheric crime thriller set in the beautiful Italian city of Bologna, perfect for fans of Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin and Philip Gwynne Jones. When the body of a radical...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Author(s): Khaled Hosseini
  • Location(s): Herat, Kabul
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s to 2000s

At times this can be a harrowing book, in which the author paints brutal scenes but it always retains, especiallythrough the characters of Mariam and Laila, a humanity, tremendous spirit and love. They overcome the challenges that have faced...

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