- Location(s): Surry Hills
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Ruth Park’s classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia’s greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeems den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 19th Century
An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? When the letters from an Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Some curses grow stronger with time… People say that all Cornish inns are haunted, but the Waterwitch’s history is particularly chilling. Built from the salvaged timber of a cursed ship, the guest house’s dark secrets go further back than...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): Late 1930s
London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate. In...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it once belonged to Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to...
- Location(s): Lake Superior
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds...
- Location(s): The Hebrides
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): 1940s and present day
1946: far out in the Atlantic a boatload of men returning from war are shipwrecked within sight of their homes on the remote Scottish island of Kulah – and the wailing of the women could be heard across the...
- Location(s): Churchill, Halifax
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba. Across Canada, Linn has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents for the private...
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