- 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...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1990s
The perfect escape, or the perfect trap? When a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the Maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip. But when the island is cut...
- Location(s): Chawton
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1945/6
‘Hope can sometimes be just enough.’ It’s only a few months since the war ended but the little village of Chawton is about to be hit by another devastating blow. The heart of the community and site of Jane...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1830s
A crime-solving eunuch in Istanbul. Set in Istanbul in 1836, Yashim has to deal with murders inside the harem and inside the new military at the same time.
The Jewel in the Crown (Raj Quartet 1)
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1940s
The story centres on the love affair between an awkward English woman, Miss Manners, and a British privately-educated Indian, Hari Kumar, who struggles to find his place in an India he does not know. It explores the characters in...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just...
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