- Location(s): North Carolina, Pinewood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream. JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home...
- Location(s): Ohio, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about living in world that contains both an...
- Location(s): Dartmoor
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1300's
England 1330: on a remote Devonshire estate. Young and innocent Joan de Chiddleigh is struggling with her new status as Lady of the Manor. Lonely and neglected by her ambitious husband, Sir John, she strikes up a forbidden friendship...
No One Prayed Over Their Graves
- Location(s): Aleppo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1907
December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to their village near Aleppo-only to discover a scene of tragedy. A devastating flood has levelled their homes, shops...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
He is the most terrifying of killers: ruthless, cunning, charismatic. And he has the means to get whatever he wants. And what Rico Chavez wants most is Elena Kyler–and he wants her dead. Trained as an assassin, Elena didn’t...
No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘The twist is perfection. I think it’s just about the cleverest thing I’ve ever read’ Gillian McAllister You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the policeman on the doorstep. What he says traps...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Communication – or the lack thereof – is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel. No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left’ Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2011
Anastasia Pestova is a quiet teller at the Bank of Moscow, in a city that doesn’t notice if she breathes. But when millions of rubles vanish through her terminal, she is suddenly the centre of a money laundering conspiracy....
- Location(s): Lesbos (Lesvos), Canada, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Syrian refugee crisis becomes personal for Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty. NGO worker Audrey Clare, sister of Khattak’s childhood friend, is missing. In her wake, a French Interpol Agent and a young Syrian man are found...
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