- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 100s CE
(The Empress of Rome Book 4) Sabina may be Empress of Rome, but she still stands poised on a knife’s edge. She must keep the peace between two deadly enemies: her husband Hadrian, Rome’s brilliant and sinister Emperor; and...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Egyptian
She grew up on the reed-lined banks of the Upper Nile but she was not like the other villagers of Aswat. Intelligent and ambitious, Thu is convinced that her destiny is greater than to marry a peasant, tend crops...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 17th century
“Look, Anne! Lately, I saw you going to Charleston disguising yourself as a man. I don’t understand the reason you do it. Why do you dress in male clothing?” Twenty-five-year-old Anne resisted her father, her pastel sylphlike fingers entangled...
- Location(s): Wuxi
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 15th Century
In 15th-century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths. According to Confucius, ‘an educated woman is a worthless woman’, but Tan Yunxian – born...
- Location(s): Holystone
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
No. 20 in the DCI Ryan series THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER… When the ancient waters of Lady’s Well in the rural village of Holystone begin to run red, it seems to be a nasty Hallowe’en prank and nothing...
- Location(s): Delhi, Lahore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Book 1 of The Partition Trilogy In the months leading up to Independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are engaged in deliberations with British Viceroy Dickie Mountbatten over the fate of the country. In Lahore, Sepoy Malik...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Why dig a new grave when one already exists…? With his diet slipping and his penchant for Czech beer and pastries ever-growing, Captain Josef Slonský is back to his old ways. Except now he has four officers in his...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it’ Guardian ‘A bloody good read’ Val McDermid When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding...
- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
When Lainey Morgan (aged 14 years and 8 months) bumps into gorgeous Kieran Kamau, it’s love at first sight for both of them. But Lainey’s eccentric mum, nicknamed the Word Magpie for her love of collecting words out of...
- Location(s): Rochester
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no...
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