- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1850s and Modern
One tour, two trips, 150 years and a world of change apart In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook s first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines… there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Tom Chesshyre...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Evil runs through this cursed island And these wicked sisters are about to make it burn… When sisters Lily and Della Pedley are persecuted for the shocking murder of their parents, they flee from their home in Cornwall to...
- 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...
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