Never Pack an Ice-Axe: Tales From a Travel Writer’s Life
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
You’d think a long-time travel writer would have some great travel tips. You’d think. Jules learns about travel the hard way, whether it’s setting out on his first European hitch-hiking adventure, writing about offbeat destinations for Rough Guides, or...
- Location(s): Algeciras, Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The book moves between fiction Berehaven in Ireland and Algeciras. It’s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter...
- Location(s): Siglufjörður
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
The peace of a close-knit Icelandic community is shattered by the murder of a policeman – shot at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic...
- Location(s): Western Australia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern Day
GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR. ‘An unrelenting page-turner’ CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END ‘Thrilling . . . It left me breathless’ ALEX MARWOOD, author of THE WICKED GIRLS ‘Relevant, powerful and...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
… though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed. It is New Year’s Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Oliver Dreyfuss seems to have it all: a celebrated restaurateur with a glamorous and wealthy wife. As he travels by train to his new restaurant in Paris, there is an accident. Crawling from the debris in shock, Oliver walks...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She was your best friend. Now she’s your deadliest enemy – and there’s nowhere to run… When Alice receives an invitation from Karen, her charismatic University friend, to stay in a remote cottage in Scotland, she can’t wait to...
- Location(s): East Africa, Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring prisoner-of-war and escape adventures of the past century. In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1850s
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE WASN’T THE ONLY HEROINE … 1854. Britain is fighting a gruesome war. There has been no news of Lucy Gray since she eloped with handsome and impetuous Captain Charlie Harvington and embarked with him to the Crimea....
- Location(s): Cambridge, Cornwall, Maze Hill
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1998
You might be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not watching you. Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers’...
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