- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980s
This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Era(s): Modern
A sparkling story from the Queen of Ro-magic comedy! Aspiring actress Anna Hilford might only have a small role in a leading television drama, but she longs to be dreamboat Karl Drake’s leading lady. Sick of being loveless and...
- Location(s): Cambridgeshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
New home, new friends, new love. Can starting over be that simple? Tess Riddell reckons her beloved Freelander is more reliable than any man – especially her ex-fiancé, Olly Gray. She’s moving on from her old life and into...
Starting Over at the Little Cornish Beach House
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes moving out isn’t enough to move on… Having grown up in foster care, all Faith Hudson wants is a place to call home. So when Gabe, her ex, asks for a second chance and suggests she move back...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
- Era(s): Modern
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby’s son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place....
- Location(s): Berlin, Halle-neustadt, Oberhof
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1970s
East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed...
- Location(s): Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency....
- Location(s): United States (USA), World
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): the near future
STATE OF TERROR follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the...
- Location(s): Michigan, Ontario, The Great Lakes
- Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern and future
From the Inside Flap DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Now and the near future
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is...
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