- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS? Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good. For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become...
- Location(s): Isola del Giglio
- Genre(s): Historical, Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio–a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways. A tiny...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell,...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Yorkshire village of Beddingfield is home to the wonderful women of the Allen family: teacher Robyn, wannabe chef Jess, teenage tearaway Sorrel and matriarch Lisa, who holds the whole family together. But underneath her warmth and brilliance, Lisa...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The rich tapestry of life in 1980s New Orleans is torn apart when a group of friends has a sudden change in fortunes. Having recently lost his job, when John Seegum stumbles across an unattended package full of cocaine,...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In his debut, Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua established himself as one of the most daring voices of the Middle East. In his searing new novel, a young Arab journalist returns to his hometown — an Arab village within Israel...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Struggling through another Edinburgh winter Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers. Was the Lord Provost’s daughter kidnapped or just another runaway? Why is a city councillor shredding documents that...
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