- 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...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ice and Crime Book 2 The darker the secret, the harder to bury it. Compelling reading – Lilja Sigurðardóttir As a police team is called in to investigate a woman’s suicide at the Hólmsheiði prison outside Reykjavík, to detective...
Silenced Girls (Agent Tori Hunter #1)
- Location(s): Minnesota, Iowa, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Guilt has kept FBI Agent Tori Hunter away from her home in Manchester Bay, Minnesota for twenty years, ever since her twin sister disappeared on the Fourth of July, when the girls should have been together. But when she...
- Location(s): Basel
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Romance
- Era(s): Present day
What does it mean to love and be loved in Singapore? Singapore Love Stories is a vibrant collection of seventeen stories that delves into the diverse love lives of Singapore’s eclectic mix of inhabitants. From the HDB heartlander to...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
It’s official. Hannah has left her friends and family in the US behind and is following her dream. To live in London. Unfortunately she’s completely unprepared for what’s in store. She’s going to find: 1. Her dream guy. A...
- Location(s): Belfast, County Cork
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s and mid 2000s
A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth in post-conflict Ireland, and a redemptive story of a woman claiming back her own identity. Róisín Burns has spent the past twenty years becoming someone else; her...
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