- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate...
- Location(s): Kyiv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1990s
An exhilarating, darkly atmospheric debut novel set in Kiev. ‘An unforgettable story. The claustrophobia is palpable, and the characters are utterly convincing in this beautifully observed novel. Outstanding.’ —Claire Fuller ‘Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already...
- Location(s): West Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present, Victorian era
Two sisters, their grandmother’s old house and Angharad… the girl who cannot leave. Meredith discovers a dusty sewing box in a disused attic. Once open the box releases the ghost of Angharad, a Victorian child-woman with a horrific secret...
- Location(s): Antarctica, South Pole
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
The men of Captain Scott’s Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the Empire they served by reaching the South Pole. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. For...
- Location(s): Italian Alps
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
When winter comes, man and dog are snowed in. With stocks of wine and bread depleted, they pass the time squabbling over scraps, debating who will eat the other first. Spring brings a more sinister discovery that threatens to...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Late 1930s
The unnamed voice of this book is a contemporary journalist, who is investigating the story of Rafael Sanchez Mazas, a “good, not great” writer from the 1930s,set against the final moments of the Spanish Civil War. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes...
- Location(s): Croatia, Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s/modern
Jay has chosen an itinerant life of busking and odd-jobbing, using rootlessness and stories to hide the guilt of his mistakes from the 1990s war in Croatia, beneath an outward layer of cheerfulness. When he arrives in the Yorkshire...
- Location(s): St Ives
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can you fall in love with someone before you’ve even met? Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built – while grieving for his loss – she...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everyone here is lying… Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday,...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The follow-up to the global bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Songbirds is a heart-breaking story for our times. She walks unseen through our world. Cares for our children, cleans our homes. Her voice unheard. She has a story to...
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