- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
My name is Nicky Frank. I’m in hospital after crashing my car. I am afraid. The only thing that I can think about is Vero. I know I have to save her but why couldn’t I find her? She’s...
- Location(s): Georgia, Fort Lauderdale
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Present Time
A year after being left at the altar, headstrong E.R Nurse, Lana McKenzie is finally piecing her life back together. Tired of seeing her ex and his new girlfriend at every turn, she longs for blissful solitude and can’t...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
When Georgina O’Neill disappears without trace, a postcard arrives convincing everyone that she is fine…. Everyone except her husband Tim. When he meets Mills Sanderson at a wedding in Burnsall three years later, he begs her to help him...
- Location(s): Provincetown
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): present day
Climate scientist Chase Anderson races from one project to the next, unwilling to slow down in his quest to save the world’s oceans. He has no time for family or relationships until he crashes into an impetuous blonde with...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): early 2000s
Sheriff Littlepage Eller of Crazy, Virginia, has her work cut out for her. She started life as the unwanted daughter of both of Crazy’s feuding founding families. She’s enforcing the law in a quirky town more used to paying...
Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Eighteenth-Century
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Thirty-nine-year-old Sitine, never married, lives with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions aroused only by the preparation of food—until an unbearably handsome Arabic...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Era(s): 1850s
She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties as a Southern wife...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
Travel writer Mark Boyter’s solo journey through Laos, shortly after it’s re-opening to Western travel and tourism in the early 1990s. Beautifully written in a self-reflective style that looks both at a country and a traveller.
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