- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Noir, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand’s stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Ancient Rome
Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on the colourful Aventine Hill, and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider,...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A remarkable debut novel about women’s relationships – with each other and with the men in their lives – and the rise of fundamentalism in India today. ‘When the light shifts, you see the world differently.’ A superbly nuanced...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From 1969
It’s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2010-11
Adrian Hartman is the charismatic director of the Serendipity holiday community, set among pine trees on a sun baked Greek island. His job is to ensure the perfect mindful break, with personal growth and inner peace guaranteed. His guests...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Cold War
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present: comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Music
- Era(s): 18th Century
Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent. Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi. Soon she is his star pupil. But as Anna Maria’s star rises,...
- Location(s): Prespes Region
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Burnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Manolis flies from Australia to Greece for a holiday. Recently divorced and mourning the death of his father, who emigrated from the turbulent Prespes region which straddles the borders of Greece, Albania and...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hungary, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Lost meets The Hunger Games in the thrilling new young adult novel from C.L. Taylor, the Sunday Times and million-copy bestselling author. *** Welcome to The Island. Where your worst fears are about to come true… It was supposed...
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