- Location(s): Seoul
- Genre(s): Mystery, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the summer of 2002, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on was murdered in what became known as the High School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma’s borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people...
- Location(s): London, Birmingham
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table book, part...
- Location(s): England, Mauritius
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Holly Wilson has landed a dream job which involves her staying at five-star resorts around the world. There is however a proviso. She must travel incognito and that means telling lies. Holly hates lies. Her cover story, designed to...
- Location(s): West Norwood
- Genre(s): Nature, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2020/21
See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of seventy-two seasons: revealing the beauty of small and subtle changes with joy and verve.
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the lives of the authors and the works that make them...
- Location(s): Queens
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
It’s the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search,...
- Location(s): Kenya, Norway
- Genre(s): Crime, Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose … until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo Detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim’s Kenyan scientist...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
WINNER STANFORDS TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS, FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE 2020 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old...
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a...










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