- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesn’t recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone else’s. To add to the shock, two...
- Location(s): London
- Era(s): Late 19th century
1878- The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another. Henry Irving, the Chief, is the volcanic leading...
- Location(s): Anglesey
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Now
DI Braddick is put on the case when a hijacked drug deal has resulted in murder and an eye witness goes missing. When victims are discovered strung up from the rafters of an abandoned fish factory, on the Anglesey...
- Location(s): Chad
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Riding Pasha, his beloved white camel, John Hare set out from the shrinking shores of Lake Chad with 25 camels, 4 Tuaregs, a Chinese professor, a white Kenyan rancher and a young Englishman. His objective: to reach Tripoli, following...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary / AD 79
The sunlight caught her gold bracelet, sending a flash that almost blinded her. She closed her eyes, but jumped when the earth started shaking and there was an almighty boom behind her. Present Day Finally escaping an abusive marriage,...
- Location(s): Bath, England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): AD 80 and contemporary
Her head buzzed with long-forgotten memories, fleeting images that flickered in and out of her mind. Nothing tangible, and not a single one fully formed, but teasing and tantalising, as if they wanted to surface but didn’t know how....
- Location(s): Dartmouth, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern (with references to WW2)
When Katie, redundant from her media job, accepts Mattie’s offer to take over her shop, A Good Yarn, in Dartmouth, she expects her life to be busy and unexciting. But with an American film crew in town intent on...
- Location(s): Kauai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Still reeling from her mother’s death, Malia refuses to spend the summer before college walking on eggshells around her overbearing father. So, hoping to reconnect with her mother’s spirit, Malia flees to the remote Kalalau Valley of Kauaʻi, where...
- Location(s): Equatorial Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, Shadows of Your Black Memory presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
“Maine. Antiques. August.” That’s all Maggie Summer requires for a guaranteed fun getaway. But there is an unexplained urgency behind the invitation from her former college roommate, Amy Douglas. The eighteenth-century house Amy and her husband Drew are restoring...
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