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An Inconvenient Woman

An Inconvenient Woman
  • Author(s): Stéphanie Buelens
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Claire Fontaine learns that her ex-husband Simon is marrying again, to a woman with a teenage daughter, her blood runs cold. She is sure that years ago Simon molested her own daughter and was responsible for her mysterious...

An Italian Home

An Italian Home
  • Author(s): Paul Wright
  • Location(s): Lake Como
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Paul and Nicola, artist and his wife relocate to Lake Como, the warm descriptive writing of the process is beautiful, the locals come to life. A great book to help understand the ways of the people who live around...

An Untamed State

An Untamed State
  • Author(s): Roxane Gay
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day...

An Unusual Grief

An Unusual Grief
  • Author(s): Yewande Omotoso
  • Location(s): Gauteng, Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question that haunts Mojisola as she grapples with the sudden loss of her daughter, Yinka, and the unresolved fractures in their relationship. Mojisola is...

And Then There Was You

And Then There Was You
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lonely people. One song to change their lives… Merryn Rowe adores her life in St Ives. The café she owns and the community she serves are her much-needed second chance after a heart-breaking divorce. But as she gazes...

Anil’s Ghost

Anil’s Ghost
  • Author(s): Michael Ondaatje
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in...

Animal

Animal
  • Author(s): Lisa Taddeo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That’s a cruel...

Aphrodite’s Tears

Aphrodite’s Tears
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is set on the fictional island of Helios, but as the author explains in this #TalkingLocationWith…  article, the inspiration is very clearly Santorini. A young archaeologist who travels to the remote island of Helios (based on the...

April in Spain

April in Spain
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): San Sebastian
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn’t. It wasn’t simple at all.’ When Dublin pathologist Quirke...

Are You Experienced?

Are You Experienced?
  • Author(s): William Sutcliffe
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

For anyone with the slightest curiosity about travelling, or even if you’ve been, William Sutcliffe’s tremendously funny Are You Experienced? will have you in stitches. The protagonist is Dave, a 19-year-old Londoner on a gap year before starting university....

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