- Location(s): Qatar
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s to 1970s
Qatar is now the richest nation on earth but in the 1920s the tiny desert country struggled to survive. Over half a century we follow the Al Bahr family, whose traditional pearl-diving days must change in a world of...
- Location(s): Peckham
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2008 back to 1843
They thought they’d found their dream home. They were wrong. 2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain – a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ava, 14 years old and totally on her own, has still not fully processed her mother’s death when she finds herself on a train heading to New Orleans, going to stay with Lane, her grandmother whom she’s never met....
The House with the Stained-Glass Window
- Location(s): Lviv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
In 1989, Marianna, the beautiful star soprano at the Lviv opera, is shot dead in the street as she leads the Ukrainian citizens in their protest against Soviet power. Only eleven years old at the time, her daughter tells...
- Location(s): Bologna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A gripping and atmospheric crime thriller set in the beautiful Italian city of Bologna, perfect for fans of Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin and Philip Gwynne Jones. It’s truffle season and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on...
- 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...
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