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Location(s): Galveston, Louisiana
Genre(s): Crime
Era(s): 1980s
Roy Cady is by his own admission ‘a bad man’. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he’s a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss’s lover, he’s...
Location(s): Glasgow, Scotland
Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
Era(s): 2016
On a warm summer’s evening thirteen month old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland, taken while her parents are yards away. Three days later, the distraught father turns up at Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron’s office and...
Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World
Location(s): Japan
Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
Era(s): Modern looking back
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, the geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha....
Gelato Sisterhood on the Amalfi Shore
Location(s): Amalfi Coast
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): Modern
Warmed by the brilliant Campania sun and the lemon-scented breeze off shimmering Mediterranean waters, the Amalfi Coast has been seducing travelers since Roman times. Lush terraced mountainsides brimming with grape vines and olive groves tumble down to meet the...
Location(s): New Zealand
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 19th Century
Also published as: Green Dolphin Country Vivid, exciting tales ― earthquakes, shipwreck, encounters between New Zealand settlers and the indigenous Maori people ― are paired with fascinating details of 19th-century life, from sailing ships and steamboats to women’s fashions...
Location(s): New York City (NYC)
Genre(s): Children
Era(s): Modern
New York might be the Big Apple, but for Tim it’s sausage city! A priceless golden statue has been stolen and Tim has a vital clue. He follows the trail of hot dogs in a sizzling chase from sleepy...
Location(s): Australia, Sydney
Genre(s): Children
Era(s): Modern
When Grk sniffs some succulent sausages, he can’t resist following his nose – and ends up on the other side of the world. He’s in Australia, the land of surfing, sharks and the Red Jelly Gang, a ruthless band...
Location(s): Paris
Era(s): Modern
Tim and Natascha realise to their horror that Max has gone to Paris to confront their first adversary, Colonel Zinfandel, the dictator of Stanislavia. They rush after him, with their intrepid dog Grk. Will Max overstep the mark and...
Location(s): Seychelles
Genre(s): Children
Era(s): Modern
When Tim discovers a man badly hurt on a beach, his sun-kissed relaxing holiday in the Seychelles takes on a more dangerous twist. He and Grk are the only ones, it seems, who want to know what happened. They...
Location(s): Zurich
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
Anna was a good wife, mostly . . . Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far...