- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
In 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s Livia’s 40th birthday and she’s having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never had. Everyone she loves will be there except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. But although Livia loves Marnie,...
The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
These two witty and perceptive social dramas are sympathetic and honest explorations of the conflicts between the individualism of westernised culture and the social traditions of Africa. Both plays have been performed throughout the world.
- Location(s): Bilbao
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The story goes that in my family there’s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He’s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often...
- Location(s): Arkansas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1997
It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief....
The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
- Location(s): North East France
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted His Bloody Project. Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress...
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
- Location(s): The Hamptons
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s and 2000s
In the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea reels from the discovery of three murders. Confounding their superiors, two young police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott crack the case and identify the killer, earning themselves...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Silvia’s brother, Eduardo, has Disappeared, and she won’t stop fighting until she finds him. Norberto, the general’s son, is just foolish enough to help. He’ll fall in love with her, and then he’ll ask his father to set Eduardo...
- Location(s): Vietnam, Mui
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she tries to complain,...
- Location(s): Louisbourg
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
Torn between clashing empires and contentious families, Marie Levesque fights to find a place in the unforgiving frontier of Canada. As a young woman, her life is just beginning. Her friendship with Pierre promises of something more. But the...
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