The Adventures of Roobie & Radley and The Christmas campervan Rescue
- Location(s): West Highlands
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern day set in West Highlands of Scotland
It’s almost Christmas in Westie Green and the snowflakes are falling. Nestled deep within the Highlands of Scotland lives an enchanting community of West Highland Terriers, the Westie Hutters. Roobie & Radley and their pet piglet Disco live at...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1997
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy – or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is back in power, and Seierstad...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 1960s
In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port...
- Location(s): East Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Kurt Krausmann, a recently bereaved Frankfurt doctor, is persuaded to join his friend, wealthy benefactor Hans Makkenroth, on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. The journey helps him begin to confront his loss, but soon misfortune strikes again: the...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do...
- Location(s): Tunisia
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
It looked like an ordinary group of tourists – a mix of easy-going and critical, quiet and talkative, enthusiastic and bored. But antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is leading this tour through the souks, mosques and ruins of Tunisia so...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
The incredible story of the slave who became a Japanese samurai. In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She was your best friend. Now she’s missing. And everyone suspects you. People drift apart. You and Georgie were inseparable once; she knew you better than anyone. But that was then. Now, out of the blue, Georgie’s back. She’s...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Andrea Camilleri’s sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigàta harbour – and into a puzzling new mystery....
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