- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Claire Wright likes to play other people. A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in...
- Location(s): India, Sussex
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century to early 1920s
Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father’s surprise birthday present – a tragedy that ends her childhood in India and precipitates a new life in Sussex with her...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE. One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells and good wishes, Dad’s wife and daughter work to make...
- Location(s): Kreuzberg, Neukölln
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do the...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Honduras
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns. The new high-octane international thriller from David Gilman. Someone’s trying to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone. It has been many years since Dan...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence – both from outside the family and also, devastatingly,...
- Location(s): China, Bahrain, Idaho, Montenegro, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1930-2010
Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.
- Location(s): South London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It’s about a bus trip really, because it’s my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker...
Between the Woods and the Water
- Location(s): Europe, Hungary, Romania
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
this is the sequel to ‘A Time of Gifts’, and Fermor continues his walk through the length of 1930s Europe. Starting from where the previous book left off, at the border into Hungary, and on to “the Iron Gates”...
- Location(s): Somerset, Sussex
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 and 2022
Some secrets are better left buried… 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and...
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