- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s Great Depression
In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times. May Marshall has returned from Paris to settle at her family home in rural Keswick, Virginia....
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
The award-winning stories that make up this linked collection showcase ordinary men and women in and around Rugglesville, Virginia, as they struggle to find places and identities in their families and the community. They experience natural disasters, a sun-worshipping...
- Location(s): Colombia, Italy, Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jonas Merrick series. Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear. And their ambition reaches further still. Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine,...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins’s mother commits suicide. Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her...
- Location(s): Kansas, Holcomb
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1959
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the...
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Heading for Antarctica to study glaciology with her venerable mentor, Dr. Emmett Vanderzee, Valena Walker, a masters student in geology, finds herself thrust into the role of amateur sleuth when Vanderzee is arrested for the killing of a reporter,...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1984
The bestselling novel and deeply affecting story of a young girl who comes to terms with her father’s death in Vietnam two decades earlier In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose...
- Location(s): North India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life...
- Location(s): Africa, Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan, The Sudan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1884
A fourteen year old Polish boy and his British friend Nell are kidnapped by extremists in 1884 British Colonial Africa. They are taken hostage deep into uncharted wilderness, where they must struggle to survive with the help of their...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious...
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