- 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...
The Ebb (The Lady of the Pier)
- Location(s): Brighton, Corfu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s and 1980s
When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… CORFU, 1987 On a long holiday with her grandparents, Sofia Aspioti meets Danny Markson, a charming flirt who makes her laugh. Although she tries to keep him...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Venice
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
The Echoes of Love is a beautiful, poignant story of lost love and betrayal, unleashed passion and learning to love again, whatever the price. Venetia Aston-Montague has escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother s...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920/21
They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education...
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