- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2016
SÃO PAULO, 20 MARCH 2016 A campaign for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is in full swing, yet 100,000 people take to Avenida Paulista in São Paulo in her support. On the same day, a young man from...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
2003. Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued...
- Location(s): England, New Zealand (Aotearoa), South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 forward
A fake birth certificate! No record of her existence in the UK data base. Jemima Ashton is desperate to discover her real identity. With scant information and the burning question ‘who am I?’, she embarks on an incredible journey...
- Location(s): North Carolina, San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . . Molly Arnette is good at keeping secrets. As she and her husband try to adopt a baby, she worries that the truth she’s kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood...
- Location(s): London, Cambridge, Luton
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning. But an unexpected event forces her to confront the patriarchal power of the...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
Thailand 1996. The Year Of The Rat. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams, young, stunningly pretty, and one of the...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Lyon, Provence, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Falling in love with the south of France was no surprise to Katherine. Choosing to walk away from her past and start over was completely unexpected. Her future seemed full of promise. A new country, a new lover, and...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2 to present
The Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We’ve all fallen in love with one or another of Japan’s pop-culture creations, from the techy to the wild to the super-kawaii. But as Japanese-media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
Believe the hype. Sold in over 32 countries and counting, RAGDOLL is the standout thriller of the year. A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a puppet, nicknamed by the press as...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an...
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