- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds. Growing...
- Location(s): North Island, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand’s North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death — Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling...
- Location(s): Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Genre(s): Noir
- Era(s): contemporary
Un noir ambientato nel nord-est, un ritratto spietato della provincia italiana e insieme una intensa storia di amore, politica, gelosia. La confessione di un uomo in lotta con i suoi fantasmi, e del suo imprevedibile riscatto. L’architetto Fabbretto non...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1850s to 1860s
The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man’s Walk and prequels Lonesome Dove, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
Things look good for Carrie Marie Mullins, a Kentucky bluegrass fiddler and the only woman in the Hawktown Road band. She loves the wild music and the late hours. She also loves Cap Dunlap, Hawktown’s roughly handsome lead guitarist...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption. Maya is homeless and living on an illegal encampment in London. The site is razed and Maya is detained, but then...