- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Multiple eras
Deep in the mountains of north-east Scotland lies Glen Conach, a place of secrets and memories, fable and history. In particular, it holds the stories of three different eras, separated by centuries yet linked by location, by an ancient...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870
It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the...
- Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Beth Venable has seen too much… Witness to a major mob hit, she’s placed in protective custody until the trial. But after her third safe house is riddled with bullets, she goes off-grid to save herself. What the FBI...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Georgie quits his job at Oats Technologies to travel the world for one year, he hopes to escape the daily existential discomfort of corporate life. But after a meditation guru robs him on his way to the airport,...
- Location(s): London, Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a ‘literary gentleman’. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous...
- Location(s): France, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby s...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1880
Jacobsen’s immediate importance was his status as the ‘writer of his generation.’ With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism’s dream and religion. . . . Like the single...
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Heavily pregnant Frannie is facing a crisis. An English woman living in Germany, her marriage is failing, her language skills are hopeless, and she feels like a fish out of water in a foreign country. In a positive effort...
Night Falls on Ardnamurchan: The Twilight of a Crofting Family
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
SINCE ITS FIRST PUBLICATION in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with extracts from his...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Set in the exotic and turbulent world of Syria in the 1930s, Night Falls on Damascus tells the story of a French-Syrian police inspector, Nikolai Faroun, caught up in a complex murder investigation of a beautiful and controversial woman...
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