- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters, deeply divided...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1920s
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised...
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day...
The Other Half of Augusta Hope
- Location(s): Burundi, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she’s an adult, Augusta has no...
- Location(s): Aleppo, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Consistently receiving 5-star ratings, The Other Half of My Soul; is a gripping story about an American-born Syrian Jew from Brooklyn and a Syrian-born Shi-ite Muslim from Aleppo. The book raises profound questions about personal choices, commitments, responsibility, and...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway,...
- Location(s): East London, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 2019
You’re feeling pretty smug about your commute to work by riverboat. No more traffic gridlock or getting stuck on the tube in tunnels (you’re claustrophobic). Now you’ve got fresh air, an iconic Thames view, a whole lifestyle upgrade. You’ve...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl’s face appear in the rear window. She mouths one word: ‘Daddy.’ It’s his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again. Three years later,...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
When the reward is the most costly sacrifice of all In a southern farming community in 1925, thirteen-year-old Salvatore and his Italian immigrant father become involved against their will in a crime that results in the murder of an...
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