- Location(s): Corfu, Igoumenitsa
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
1960. Shy eighteen-year-old Jean is resigned to yet another long empty summer stretching out before her, working for her father at the stables and dreaming of a life so different from her own. Until one day, Vivienne Fenwick’s sleek...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year A few little lies never hurt anyone. Right? Wrong. Paul has a plan. He has a vision...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A few little lies never hurt anyone. Right? Wrong. Paul has a plan. He has a vision of a better future, and he’s going to make it happen. If it means hiding or exaggerating a few things here and...
- Location(s): Hawai'i, England, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister’s...
- Location(s): Haute-Vienne, Limoges
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Suspense
- Era(s): Present day
How can you build a new life on toxic foundations? Emma Willshire has overcome plenty of obstacles in her life, from student bride to single mum of a son, Owen, but she has found happiness with her second husband,...
- Location(s): Mid Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
An exceptionally good mystery from Wales’ best up-and-coming talent! A body is found in a dark and dingy tunnel at the bottom of Dinas Rock, the site of a disused mine. There is no sign of struggle… Detective Inspector...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Jan needs this. She’s flying to Crete to reunite with friends she met there five years ago and relive an idyllic vacation. Basking in the warmth of the sun, the azure sea, and the aura of antiquity, she can...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1959
In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An...
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): 1948 onwards
Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero-or antihero-of Mo Yan’s ovel is Ximen Nao,...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
A first-hand account of China’s cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make...
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