An inspiring and escapist read – Eat, Pray, Love meets Bridget Jones! Will the trip of her dreams… Become the journey of her lifetime? Everly Carter is bored. With her job, with her single status and with the never...
From the queen of historical fiction, a thrilling, deliciously creepy story that is sure to freeze your blood . . . They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. ‘A tale to freeze the blood,’ was the only rule....
Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell’. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a...
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into...
It is the end of October, the northern Swiss city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man...
Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
Genre(s): Thriller
Era(s): Contemporary
She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...
The first in the Bourne trilogy. (From the back cover): He has no past. And he may not have a future. All he knows is that he was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence...
Can young hearts ease a restless spirit? On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother’s wedding – when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do...