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The Tea House on Mulberry Street

The Tea House on Mulberry Street
  • Author(s): Sharon Owens
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

This book interweaves the lives and stories of several well crafted characters, and the tea house is the thread that binds them all. This is a book, set in Belfast, where people find comfort in tea and food.

The Therapist

The Therapist
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): Finsbury Park
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present/ 2018

When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive… As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating, grisly...

The Thief

The Thief
  • Author(s): Fuminori Nakamura
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to...

The Third Man

The Third Man
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s/50s

This Novella (in this edition together the Fallen Idol)is set in Vienna, it was intended as a draft for a screenplay. Greene felt the film was superior to his writing. Gone are the fin de siècle coffee houses, and...

The Third Secret

The Third Secret
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Europe, Romania, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

What is the Third Secret? It is rumoured to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive, night after...

The Thorn

The Thorn
  • Author(s): Beverley Lewis
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the first of the Rose Trilogy. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with its rolling meadows and secret byways, may seem idyllic, but it is not without its thorns. THE ROSE TRILOGY is the stirring saga of two Amish sisters...

The Three Of Us

The Three Of Us
  • Author(s): Ore Agbaje-Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves your side. What more could you ask for? There’s just one problem: your husband and best friend love you, but they hate each other....

The Titian Committee

The Titian Committee
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a high honour. Normally, that is, until two of its members end up dead and someone seems to be taking the idea of backstabbing a little too far. Flavia de...

The Trade Mission

The Trade Mission
  • Author(s): Andrew Pyper
  • Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine your job is to translate for a pair of arrogant technology whizzkids on business in South America. Imagine you are accompanying them on a jaunty boat trip up the river Amazon. Imagine that late one night some foreign...

The Trunk

The Trunk
  • Author(s): Kim Ryeo-ryeong, Kolab (translation team)
  • Location(s): Seoul, South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings so far, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with...

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