- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Following a murder, a dizzying crescendo of tense, exciting action reaches a jaw-dropping climax… Liverpool property magnate Damon Slate is found early one Sunday morning wandering out of the Queensway Tunnel, holding a red high-heeled shoe. He seems to...
- Location(s): Cardiff, South Wales
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gethin Grey is back in the game. His wife may have left him and he’s struggling with life as a single father, but now he’s got his biggest case in years. The brutal murder of a young woman called...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Wensleydale, where the cheese is famous, the scenery beautiful, and the locals have murder on their minds … Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is forced to take leave from Bristol’s Major Investigations Team when his boss, tired...
- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2013
São Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history. Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has developed a friendship with a young English investigative journalist, Ellie. When she goes to meet a contact in...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
India. The country of curry, chutney, tigers, the Taj Mahal… and the blue rat gang. In Delhi, hundreds of children have been enslaved. Will no one help them? Does no one care? One person does. And one dog too....
Growing: Seven Years in Ceylon
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1904 - 1911
Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together – birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they’re a happy...
- Location(s): Nordland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
“It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands. It is an epic...
- Location(s): Beirut
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Abir scrapes a living in a Beirut hospital morgue by night, stealing from both the bodies he tends and his bosses. But he has a dark history that continues to haunt him. Earlier in the civil war, he fled...
Guardians of the Wild Unicorns
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
‘Across the moor galloped a huge dark beast; a heavily muscled horse with a gleaming, rippling black mane. The animal reared up, its hooves cutting the sky, its silken tail streaming like a banner. Its spiralled horn glinted in...
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