- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
Fictional American playwright, William Lammiter, travels to Rome to come to terms with his broken engagement with Eleanor Halley. He discovers, however, that she is now the fiancee of Count Luigi Pirotta. Whilst there he has a chance encounter...
- Location(s): Yellow Springs
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Drinks in hand, a group of neighbourhood women gather around a fire pit to enjoy a rare child-less Saturday night. Giddy with freedom, they drink too much, share secrets they wish, perhaps, they hadn’t, and enjoy getting to know...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody (‘Moody’), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody’s family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she...
- Location(s): Caribbean, Hull, New York City (NYC), The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child,...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
With his father’s ponzi scheme assets frozen, Tom Worthington believes finishing college is impossible unless he can pay his own way. After months sleeping in his car and gypsy-cabbing for cash, he’s ready to do just that. But his...
- Location(s): Wolverhampton
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Half-gypsy detective Eoin Miller finds people for a living-usually people who would do anything to remain hidden. Ironic considering Eoin has done all he can to lose himself in a downward spiral that has cost him his job, his...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter’s Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town...
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1962
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come…
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1991
Geri Molloy is earning a huge salary working at a London investment bank just before the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. She is in on the verge of a breakdown, her boyfriend has left, she hardly sleeps and eats, and...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
There’s a full moon over Los Angeles, and for police psychologist Jamie Beaverbook that can only mean one thing: the crazies will be out in force. But when he is called into the station for a consult in the...
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