- Location(s): Japan, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Johnny Jackson used to be a famous film director, but his brother Duke was a hero. Just turned 75, JJ is heading home from exile in Japan for one last blockbuster and a civic honouring. But home is where...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s/60s
Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Germany
- Genre(s): Thriller, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH Max Weill has never forgotten the face of Otto Schramm, a doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. A NAZI...
- Location(s): Princeton, New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): turn of 20th century
An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton. Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2021
When Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is drawn back into Glasgow’s dark underworld… Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knew Kim Rafferty was bad news the moment they met. Desperate people always spelled trouble...
- Location(s): West Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Late twentieth century
From romantic comedy to razor-sharp satire to moments of quiet reflection, these tales transform a fictional West Texas town into a tapestry of human experiences. “A lush tangle of small-town life branches out in this engrossing collection of short...
- Location(s): Agra
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1857
Agra 1857, the Indian rebellion. Three children are trying to make their way through a country at war with a circus tiger in search of safety. Jacques is a boy acrobat who has lost his circus; Beatrice ( Bea)...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
At long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. Working with his controversial former mentor, Jonathan, he’s given the performance of a lifetime, and he almost believes it might be worth the cost. Because Adam subscribes to “the...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Various
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents—telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle. Braided together are the stories of a...
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