- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
St Christopher’s College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros – a group therapist struggling through her private grief – it’s where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it’s the tragic scene of...
- Location(s): Cyprus, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960 - 1990
Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s… the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible thing, war. Against this backdrop of war and violence, the island’s inhabitants make the best...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an argument between two...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Later 1800s
Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed...
- Location(s): Harper's Ferry
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s, Modern
When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbors, the Martins. Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1928 and 1974
Takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women strive to make their mark on a world set against them. In 1928 25 year-old Clara is a talented illustrator, with dreams...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Venice, Verona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern day
‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING’ Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding ‘ONE OF THE MOST LIFE-AFFIRMING NOVELS I’VE READ IN A LONG WHILE’ CHRISTINA DALCHER, bestselling author of Vox Your fate arrives in a box on your doorstep. Do you...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Penzance
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
9 Isles of Scilly Mysteries series During Cornwall’s Dark Sky Festival, children begin to disappear, with mermaid charms left behind. Grieving DI Ben Kitto desperately races to stop a killer before his own young son is next. The bestselling,...
- Location(s): Dodecanese Islands, Symi
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate...
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