- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1933 - 1947
1933, Berlin. Ten-year-old Hanni Foss stands by her father’s side watching the torchlit procession to celebrate Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new leader. As the lights fade, she knows her safe and happy childhood is about to change forever. Practically...
- Location(s): Belgrade, Granada, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1960s
Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn’t the first time they have met. It’s the 1960s, and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners...
The Corpse on the Bristol Train
- Location(s): Bristol, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1868
On the last train of the day London Paddington to Bristol, a young woman drifts into what appears to be a peaceful sleep – only to be discovered dead on arrival. With no sign of violence and no clue...
- Location(s): Annapolis
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026 Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters . . . To her children. Her favourite authors. Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her...
- Location(s): Corsica
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th Century
Corsica, 1755. Can Valeria Peretti escape the destiny that is mapped out for her? While the island struggles for independence against its Genoese masters, she must marry an older, wealthy man. A quiet, respectable life apparently awaits Valeria, but...
- Location(s): Morocco, Meknes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s and 1950s
Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier billeted in her town fighting for the French. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves her country to follow her new husband to Morocco. But life...
- Location(s): Oslo, Stockholm
- Genre(s): Thriller
In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard...
- Location(s): Hamburg, Paris
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
The new high-stakes spy thriller from a master of the genre transports the reader to Paris and Hamburg, and deep into the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. Paris, October 1999. CIA agent Claire Saylor is looking after low-level surveillance...
- Location(s): Akranes
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century and 2017
When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Current
Three friends set sail on a luxury cruise… will they be able to catch a husband on the open seas? Leaving behind the heartache, guilt and disappointment of their real lives and suddenly single in their sixties, Kath, Jane...
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