- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The last word anyone would use to describe Stella St. Vincent is adventurous. She’s perfectly comfortable with the familiar, strict routines of her life as a copyeditor in New York. Or at least, she is until she receives a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s - 2017
Guy Ware’s new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class Communist family, growing up in the radical...
- Location(s): Croatia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980's-1990's
Yugoslavia, summer 1979. A new village. A new life. But eight-year-old Miro knows the real reason why his family moved from the inland city of Knin to the sunkissed village of Ljeta on the Dalmatian Coast, a tragedy he...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Present looking back 5 years
“There’s something I have to explain, my love,” he says, taking your hand in his. “That wasn’t a dream. It was an upload.” Abbie wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. The man...
The Personal History of Rachel Dupree
- Location(s): South Dakota
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel and Isaac DuPree left Chicago to stake a claim in this unforgiving land. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
In a world made for men, can one woman break free from tradition and walk a new path? It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended, and 18-year old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER When Gilbert Silvester wakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees – immediately, irrationally, inexplicably – for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers...
- Location(s): The Kimberley, The Pilbara, Western Australia
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s and 2017
“Outback noir has a new star” Mark Sanderson, The Times With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in. Bob is sixty-five years old, confined...
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2008
Junior creative Tim Callaghan can hardly believe his luck when he’s flown out to Dubai to supervise the filming of an advert for an international charity. He is immediately entranced by the city – a futuristic environment unlike anywhere...
- Location(s): Goa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
After being badly let down by her husband, writer Liz O’Malley takes a holiday in Goa, in India. To her surprise she falls in love with the place, the people and an old, somewhat derelict, Portuguese house. To her...
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