- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling...
The Death of Comrade President
- Location(s): Republic of the Congo, Pointe Noire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel’s everyday cares – lost grocery money, the whims of his parents’ moods,...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
When bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother’s life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. There’s just one problem – Hal’s real grandparents died more than twenty years...