- Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1596
TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet,...
Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Evie Fuller is quite simply fed up. Single, unemployed and rapidly approaching her thirtieth birthday, she finds London life is weighing heavy. When a month of free language lessons offers an escape route, she heads to Madrid for sun-soaked...
Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie travel home on the busy Metro. The train is stopped unexpectedly, and Jessie sees that one woman doesn’t leave with the other passengers: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. A...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Norwegian expatriate Jakob Odergaard rules his successful furniture corporation with a ruthlessness and egotism that draws comment even in the merciless cut and thrust of the Hong Kong business world. His baleful influence warps the lives of all around...
- Location(s): Niamey, Niger
- Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Harmattan (from an Arabic word meaning destructive wind ) tells the story of Haoua, a young girl growing up in a remote village in the Republic of Niger. Spirited independent and intelligent, Haoua has benefitted from a stable home...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modernn
Eccentric, headstrong and engaging, Isabel Flores Montserrat is a cross between a highly charged Precious Ramotswe (The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) & Phyrne Fisher (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries). When 33-year-old Isabel Flores Montserrat quits a promising career with the...
Heading East: 1 year: 26 countries: 1001 worries
- Location(s): Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
The very thought of home ownership and settling down was enough to send Dawn East running for the hills – otherwise known as the Trans-Mongolian Train, where her adventures across Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe would begin. But how...
- Location(s): Lefkas (Lefkada)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
The fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow’s powerful novel of World War II. ‘Gripping… moving narrative of friendships broken by war and betrayal’ Sunday Times...
- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set against a city on the edge of reality, of high towers and seething favelas, of rich enclaves and social stratification. Ludo is a boy taken from the slum of Heliopolis and raised in the gated wealth of Angel...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first in a new Swedish crime series featuring Tekla Berg, a fearless doctor with a remarkable photographic memory “Watch your blood pressure! A tense and clever thriller” Lilja Sigurðardóttir With 85% per cent burns to his body and...










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