- Location(s): St Ives
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
As St Ives moves into the summer season, Chief Inspector Louis Peppiatt is handed the coldest of cold cases – a local farmer’s disappearance many years ago. Merrin McKenzie, who crossed Peppiatt’s path in a case the winter before,...
Selected Short Stories Of Thailand
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
The stories in this selection, taken from William Peskett’s four collections, Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger, cover the different ways in which people look at...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Romance
The pristine blue waters and sun drenched shores of the French Riviera provide a stunning backdrop to the story of two women, Chantal and Flora, both struggling with the heartache of a lost love. Chantal Gardinier runs her real...
- Location(s): County Durham, Northumberland, The Pennines
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, it’s not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1800s
Captain Wookcott, his young wife Ester, their baby, and the 6 step children. The life of a family in the 1800s.
- Location(s): North Africa, Sahara
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War’. Lawrence’s younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the...
- Location(s): Balkans
- Genre(s): Biography, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 1900s
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK’s most popular writer on geopolitics The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It...
- Location(s): Africa, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Shortlisted for 2015 Not the Booker Prize REDEMPTION IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY – or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight. She is running away; from her failed...
She Seduced Me : A Love Affair with Rome
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present and Ancient Rome
“I resisted, but she drew me back. I stayed away, but she beckoned me. I distanced myself, but she haunted me. I even rejected her but she did not abandon me…” She Seduced Me is that rare book in...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he’s condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted. When...
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