- Location(s): The Tanimbar Islands (Timur Laut)
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Current
Will Buckingham travelled to Tanimbar Islands (Indonesia) as a trainee anthropologist to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, and Damianus Masele, who was skilled in black magic, but who abstained out of...
- Location(s): Soho (London), London
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. When a member of...
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Current
No-nonsense NYPD detective Sam McCall is investigating one of the deadliest and most complex cases of her career when the mysterious, yet infuriatingly intriguing, John Steel insinuates himself into the department. What appears at first to be the work...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): second half 20th century
When the Ku Klux Klan’s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella’s segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this Depression-era tour de force from Sharon Draper, the New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind. Stella lives in the...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): present day
Stewkey Blues is a collection of new short stories rooted in Norfolk by one of its best-known writers. From Stiffkey’s Stewkey Blues (blue shelled cockles) in the north, to the wilds of Breckland in the south, this collection is...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the opening story, sharply observed details of a walk through a St Lucian coastal town to an ageing uncle’s house, chance encounters that trigger memories, a cell-phone call from home in Trinidad, the way an incident – like...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): present-day
“Excellent yet again. How can you not fall in love with Cornwall and these characters. Can’t wait to read the next one.” “The last paragraph has you wanting the next chapter in the characters’ lives. I await the next...
Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2009
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax....
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
One beautiful Greek summer and a second chance at love. Grace Foreman never expected to find herself widowed before she turned sixty – but when she packs her bags for a summer on a gorgeous Greek island, the last...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery. When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth,...
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