Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
- Location(s): Suvanto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Claustrophobic and dark in its intensity, this novel unfolds in a sanitorium set in Suvanto in the 1920s. Female patients return on a regular basis to enjoy the spa treatments and escape their humdrum lives. Do they suffer real...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A summer’s evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse – the banality of work, the...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
Francesca’s presence pervades the lives of those she meets. She leaves an indelible mark, the true nature of her personality revealed through other people’s encounters with her. Her boldness as a spoilt child. Her temporary (and just) suffering as...
- Location(s): Ankara, Berlin, Cairo, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court...
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Every teenager wants to fit in and be just like everybody else. So imagine how hard that is when your father runs a taxidermy business out of the family home, your mother runs the student cafeteria, and your sister...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Flynns are not alright. It’s been disastrous since Bud and Catherine opened up their marriage, and none of the Flynns can remember the last time a meal was cooked, a load of laundry done, or a social code...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation’s annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
All Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best. Nothing could break...
- Location(s): Berlin, Germany
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern looking back
For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of Berlin’s most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man. Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes...
- Location(s): Baltic Coast, Germany, Grömitz
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
‘Certainly there are ghosts in these towers. For me they are the ghosts of two children. And even now – ten years later and seven hundred miles away – I still wake most nights with the muffled echo of...
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