- Location(s): Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Tucked away in a remote part of Africa, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso, three of the world’s poorest countries, are in the throes of great upheaval. Globalisation has shown their people that a more comfortable life is possible,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daugher and his outrageous friend Rudi who – dreaming of the wealthy West – lives...
- Location(s): South Tyneside, The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
FROM THE SHADOWS INTO THE LIGHT… When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1960s/70s and 2017
The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling summer novel by Karen Swan. 1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020s
As I stood on the terrace and gazed out over the most glorious view, he studied my face and said to me ‘Why do you look sad? No-one should be sad in Rome. We only have this one life,...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): 2010 looking back to 1985
Amidst the glamour of the French Riviera lies the crumbling façade of Chateau de Sètes, a small slice of France still held by the British aristocracy. But this long since abandoned chateau is now up for sale, and two...
- Location(s): Salzburg
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Twenty-one years ago, with the Allies on their heels, the Nazis hid a sealed chest in the dark, forbidding waters of the Finstersee, a lake surrounded by the brooding peaks of the Austrian Alps. One of the few men...
- Location(s): Ukerewe Island
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sent to live on a remote island in the Tanzanian half of Lake Victoria, Mark Weston finds a community grappling with one of the world’s great unknown environmental crises. ‘You used to be able to stand on the beach...
The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives...
- Location(s): Karachi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Scatter Here Is Too Great heralds a major new voice from Pakistan with a stunning debut – a novel told in a rich variety of distinctive voices that converge at a single horrific event: a bomb blast at a...
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