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The Heat of Betrayal

The Heat of Betrayal
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be – passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself...

The Hemlock Cure

The Hemlock Cure
  • Author(s): Joanne Burn
  • Location(s): Eyam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1660s

In a wholly original take on the Eyam story, Joanne Burn’s elegant prose, rich in authentic detail, results in a rewarding and timely read — SARAH BURTON, author of ‘The Strange Adventures of H’ Lyrically written, The Hemlock Cure...

The Henna Artist

The Henna Artist
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Jaipur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark...

The Hero’s Way

The Hero’s Way
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2019

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy’s mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian...

The Hidden Child

The Hidden Child
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Surrey, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1928 to 1930

London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it...

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)
  • Author(s): Norma Curtis
  • Location(s): Bergen-Belsen, London, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII / Present Day

1945. Hedi Fischer is jostled off the train and through the gates of a Nazi concentration camp. As the prisoners are pushed inside, she frantically searches for a familiar face – anybody to make her feel less alone here....

The High House

The High House
  • Author(s): Jessica Greengrass
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Brave, important and exquisitely written’ Sigrid Nunez  Guardian, Independent and New Statesman most anticipated novels of 2021  Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static Francesca is Caro’s stepmother, and Pauly’s mother. A scientist, she can...

The Himalayan Summer

The Himalayan Summer
  • Author(s): Louise Brown
  • Location(s): Darjeeling, Nepal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie’s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party,...

The Hour before Dawn

The Hour before Dawn
  • Author(s): Sara MacDonald
  • Location(s): Bay of Islands, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and modern

rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer...

The House by the Lake

The House by the Lake
  • Author(s): Thomas Harding
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘A passionate memoir.’ Neil MacGregor ‘A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which...

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