- 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, Destination 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...
- 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...










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