- Location(s): South London
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
t’s the story everyone wants to hear. That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart. The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door. The night Edward learned that...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In his quiet Vermont home, a man named Taft sits and wonders what’s missing from his life. He’s at a loss until a strange voice startles him from the rocking chair, where a stranger has seemingly appeared out of...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
In 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford...
- Location(s): London, Kew
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1987 and 2016
A haunted house, a broken family and a body that has never been found. Stella and Jack must reawaken the secrets of the past in order to solve the mysteries of the present. January, 1987. In the depths of...
- Location(s): Mozambique
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1890s
Set against the backdrop of the war between the Kingdom of Gaza, one of the last great pre-colonial African kingdoms, and the Portuguese colonialists, a young African woman Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo have shared an...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1820s
Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die… The Drowning Guard is the tale of...
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set 500 miles from Melbourne Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn’t rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, ‘one of the best novels about growing up fast’. Sally Jay Gorce...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life...
- Location(s): Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
As Jayne and Rajiv holiday in Krabi, Jayne can’t stop her mind straying to thoughts of the future: a successful business, perhaps even a honeymoon. Who would have thought she could be so content? But then their tour guide’s...
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