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- Location(s): Thailand, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Alice is turning thirty and is stuck in a rut. Her friends are all coupling up and settling down, while she’s still working as a temp, trying (and failing) not to shag her terrible ex, getting thrown out of...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Dubai, Pakistan, San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
Kathryn, an American woman, and Rashid, a Pakistani-born Muslim man, seem to have bridged the divide between Western and Islamic world views with their marriage and two American-born children. But everything changes when Rashid’s father is suddenly killed by...
- Location(s): California, Indonesia, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present looking back
John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to...
- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...
- Location(s): California, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start...
- Location(s): California, London, Switzerland, The Philippines, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): PRESENT
An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, FALL OUT – a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose. Echoing events from the past the screenplay is sent to a...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Tara Sweet is a sensible young woman whose life is turned upside when her mother marries a younger man, and Tara’s boyfriend ends their relationship. Finding herself at Otter Bay, on the Californian coast she falls for a young...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1950s
The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets . . . A stunning 1950s set debut mystery brimming with atmosphere and perfect for fans of Tangerine, Small Pleasures and Mad Men. Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time...
- Location(s): Paris, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Deserted by his father at the age of four and raised by his voodoo queen mother on the fringes of Skid Row, Los Angeles street artist Virgilio Santos believes it his mission to save the down-and-outers in his neighborhood....
- Location(s): New York State, Russia, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century and 2011
A Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . . Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future....
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