- Location(s): Corsica
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th Century
Corsica, 1755. Can Valeria Peretti escape the destiny that is mapped out for her? While the island struggles for independence against its Genoese masters, she must marry an older, wealthy man. A quiet, respectable life apparently awaits Valeria, but...
- Location(s): Morocco, Meknes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s and 1950s
Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier billeted in her town fighting for the French. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves her country to follow her new husband to Morocco. But life...
- Location(s): Oslo, Stockholm
- Genre(s): Thriller
In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard...
- Location(s): Hamburg, Paris
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
The new high-stakes spy thriller from a master of the genre transports the reader to Paris and Hamburg, and deep into the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. Paris, October 1999. CIA agent Claire Saylor is looking after low-level surveillance...
- Location(s): Akranes
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century and 2017
When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Current
Three friends set sail on a luxury cruise… will they be able to catch a husband on the open seas? Leaving behind the heartache, guilt and disappointment of their real lives and suddenly single in their sixties, Kath, Jane...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case....
- Location(s): Oxford, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Future, Fiction
- Era(s): Future
Living forever can be lethal… Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Simmy Brown is four months pregnant, working partly from home, partly from her Windermere florist shop and very much feeling her age when her husband, Christopher, asks her to deliver flowers to Eleanor Padgett. As an expert in antique...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979
‘Conjures a gritty, populous, affectionate portrait of 1979 New York City’ Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach It’s the fall of 1979 when 23-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout...
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