‘This complex, compelling tale is told with simplicity and grace’ – The Times A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers. For millennia the location of the...

A brilliantly evocative crime mystery set in the splendour of Georgian Bath, Somerset, UK. Jack Johnson has a talent for trouble – wherever he goes on his narrowboat, it seems to follow him. Moored up on the River Avon...

In his first novel, poet and short-story writer Michael Crummey reaches far into Newfoundland’s past to tell one of the colony’s most tragic stories: the extermination of the Beothuk people. Through the lives and reminiscences of some of the...

Set in Georgetown in the 1920s, River, Cross My Heart tells the story of a young black swimmer, Johnnie Mae, whose younger sister drowns in the Potomac River in summer — while the white children in Georgetown cool off...

A young man uncovers myth, history, and murder while searching for the soul of an unknown and magical place. Andrew Westoll spent a year living the dream of every aspiring primatologist: following wild troops of capuchin monkeys through the...

“No longer the benign friend of summer, the Severn was a restless dragon slithering its way past” After a beloved family member is drowned in a devastating flood, all Bede and Elin Sherwell want is peace to pursue their...

Longlisted for the 2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award It’s Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She’s hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn’t know that...

It’s the hottest summer on record. You’d planned to be in the south of France with your sister but your holiday has been cancelled. So now you’re stuck in London. And then one evening you meet a man who...

Hope lives in Africa. Twenty years after the genocide that left Rwanda in ruins, Giller Prize-winning author Will Ferguson travels deep into the once-mysterious “Land of a Thousand Hills” with his friend and cohort Jean-Claude Munyezamu, a man who...

An utterly escapist story about a journey to remember through the French countryside, from the bestselling author of The Bordeaux Book Club. When Sarah breaks her leg, her only thought is how on earth she’ll get to the south...