- Location(s): Malta
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Father Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a kappillan serving the poor Valetta, when war came out of the blue skies to pound the island to dust. Now amid the catacombs discovered by a chance bomb, he cared for...
- Location(s): Isle of Mull, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
The Keening takes you to a rapidly changing Scotland and into the lives of the MacLean family. Her vivid depictions of life and landscape on the Isle of Mull and in urbanizing and industrializing Scotland allow you to be...
The Killer’s Girl (Detective Morgan Brookes #2)
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Mama, wake up.’ The little girl reached for her mother’s face with one pudgy hand. But the eyes stayed closed, and the blood continued to trickle across the floor. When the body of a young woman is found, tied...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
CANYON COUNTY, HALLOWEEN 1983 Bobbi Lomax was the first to die, the bomb killed the prom queen on her own front lawn. Just moments later one of the nails from the city’s second bomb forced its way into the brain...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The author spent a year in Japan in search of contemplation. Instead he found a land of contradictions, where the monks spent their evenings watching game shows. It was through his relationship with Sachiko, a Japanese lady who combined...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1972 and 1990s
Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper’s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian era (1800s)
‘A sensual feast of a novel, written with elegance, beauty, charm and skill in a voice that is both lyrical and unique. The Language of Food is an intriguing story with characters that leap off the page and live,...
- Location(s): Rome, Ozieri, Sardinia (Sardegna), Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1968
Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu’s brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for...
The Last Days of El Comandante
- Location(s): Caracas
- Genre(s): Fiction
Venezuela 2012: The President’s illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens – he divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable. Miguel Sanabria is a retired oncologist, ambivalent towards the President but caught between a...
- Location(s): Isle of Mull
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Fantastic. Excellent. Incredible. I could not put this one down for the life of me.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘A stunner! I guarantee you’ll put everything on hold until you arrive at the shocking final scenes. Without a doubt, one...
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