- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Year’s Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist Dennis Lehane meets Smilla’s Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo’s debut novel...
Not Cool: Europe by Train in a Heatwave
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary 2019
9 cities, 9 countries, 9 days 1 ridiculously hot summer What could possibly go wrong? The latest travel memoir by Jules Brown – author of Takoradi to the Stars (via Huddersfield) – is a hot and steamy adventure (no,...
- Location(s): Odesa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels to a still-peaceful Odesa on routine assignment. But things veer off course when the severed hand of the local governor shows up in a vat of sunflower oil. Max stumbles across a solitary toe,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): 1961
Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A talk-show host confesses to the brutal murder of his young wife. The evidence is cast iron. But when a determined detective, an ambitious rookie prosecutor and a defence lawyer keen to make her mark piece together the details...
- Location(s): London, North Norfolk, The Chilterns
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to ‘find himself’ – alone – and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear...
- Location(s): Java, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty...
- Location(s): Rutland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book two in a stunning new crime series from 2m+ international bestseller Adam Croft. Each morning, the first train of the day leaves Oakham station and thunders through a tunnel under the village of Manton. But today the driver...
- Location(s): Hampstead, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half-finished sentences. Now she’s a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her...
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