- Location(s): Lanzarote
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
In the repressive religious environment of Lanzarote in the early 1700s, Milagro, young, beautiful and naïve, is the target of every man who sees her, including her wealthy stepfather. But when she lets herself be seduced by the handsome...
- Location(s): Lanzarote
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Time immemorial
Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his wits with merchants, monks, and kings....
- Location(s): Helensburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern/1930
In 1930, a young man, torn apart by his illegal desire, stands on a deserted Scottish beach. Wystan H. Auden is only twenty-four and longing to be a great poet; longing too, for someone who understands him. He scribbles...
- Location(s): North Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Things are tense at home for Nicky and Kenny. Their mum’s coming to visit and it will be the first time they’ve seen her in years. A lot has changed since they were little and Nicky’s not so sure...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1950s
Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O’Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance...
- Location(s): Arizona
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
David Rizzo has been waiting for a sign from above. Owner of a failing firearms store in a sun-bleached corner of Arizona, he’s drowning in debt and desperate for a word from his estranged adult son, Nick. When Nick...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2020s
I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved. Pericles Drakos...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he has to call upon his two remaining friends to help...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
Inspector Morse and Lewis tackle their first crime.
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