- Location(s): Kreuzberg, Neukölln
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do the...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Honduras
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns. The new high-octane international thriller from David Gilman. Someone’s trying to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone. It has been many years since Dan...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence – both from outside the family and also, devastatingly,...
- Location(s): China, Bahrain, Idaho, Montenegro, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1930-2010
Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th/21st Century
In a small village, set among the wild mountains of Cyprus, two families of different faiths share a seemingly unbreakable friendship based on mutual respect and deep affection. Mothers and daughters share their daily secrets, fathers and sons support...
- Location(s): South London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It’s about a bus trip really, because it’s my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker...
Between the Woods and the Water
- Location(s): Europe, Hungary, Romania
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
this is the sequel to ‘A Time of Gifts’, and Fermor continues his walk through the length of 1930s Europe. Starting from where the previous book left off, at the border into Hungary, and on to “the Iron Gates”...
- Location(s): Somerset, Sussex
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945 and 2022
Some secrets are better left buried… 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and...
- Location(s): Inner Hebrides
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Set on a tiny fictional island off the coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides. One summer’s day, Freya’s husband and son vanish at sea. A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper’s cottage on a remote...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter...