
- 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...
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): 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...