- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 2000s
Clarissa has been together with Kieran for eight years. On the night she believes he is going to propose, he actually breaks off the relationship. With nothing to keep her, she decides to head for Antarctica with 2 friends.
- Location(s): Skopelos
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
A TRUE STORY SET ON GREECE’S ‘MAMMA MIA! ISLAND OF SKOPELOS In November 2006, Linda and Dario gamble everything on their dream-a new life on the tiny Greek island of Skópelos. They’ve studied Greek, done their research, and have...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1950s to Modern
Natalie is ten years old when she is kidnapped by guerrillas from her grandparents’ farm in Rhodesia. Bloodied, terrified, and beaten at the hands of her captor, her life is saved when a young soldier comes to her rescue....
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
Rhodesia, 1943. The body of parachute instructor and local celebrity, Felicity Langham, has been found brutally raped and murdered. The police have arrested the most obvious suspect, a black man named Innocent. But it turns out, he is. WPC...
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set amidst Umbria’s landscape of desires and memories, a cast of characters collide in a web of deceit, greed and fallibility. At the centre of these overlapping stories is the cunning lawyer, Mancini, who has an unerring ability to...
- Location(s): Hawke's Bay, Napier
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the quiet of a New Zealand winter’s night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He’s fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
After the Rains is an adventurous, dramatic coming of age novel set in post-colonial Rhodesia that parallels the coming of age of fictional Jayne Cameron with that of post-colonial Rhodesia as it morphs into the free Zimbabwe. This is...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Various
Meet four generations of the Duvalier family, for whom sugar cane is both their blessing and their curse. From patriarch Carter, who perishes before the novel begins after being hit in the head by an exploding manhole cover, and...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
Theresa Tomlinson has established herself as a talented writer of historical fiction, particularly when pinpointing her home territory on the NE coast of England. Here in one volume are three of her most gripping novels in which she describes...
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Revenge is a dish best served warm…High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She’s off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. To make friends, she enters the local quiche-making competition...