- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on a high-stakes case, defending a prominent bank accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost...
- Location(s): Greece, Sparta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
Mother. Monarch. Murderer. Magnificent. You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and comfort yourself with...
- Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2010
This is the first book to be written by a Coast presenter in a narrative format and it will become the definitive guide to our coastline. Nick Crane brings his geographer’s eye and love of the British landscape to...
- Location(s): Cobble Hill
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the eclectic Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill, the lives of four married couples and their children are about to flip from complicated to combustible… Mandy is so underwhelmed by motherhood that she’s faking a debilitating disease to get...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A successful housebreaker who leaves no traces and no clues as he strips Reykjavík homes of their valuables has been a thorn in the police’s side for months. But when one night the thief breaks into the wrong house,...
- Location(s): Catalonia, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back over centuries
Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that...
Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom
- Location(s): Connemara
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is the final work in Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, and completes his breathtakingly intricate journey through the Irish peninsula (the first two are: Listening to the Wind and The Last Pool of Darkness). Connemara is not just a...
- Location(s): Provence, Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Journalist Rebekah Roberts works at New York City’s sleaziest tabloid, but dreams of bigger things. When she receives a letter from a convicted murderer claiming his innocence, she sees both a story she can’t ignore and, possibly, a chance....
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include ‘Mussels in Chocolate and Garlic’ and ‘Fernet Branca Ice Cream’. His idyll is shattered by...
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