- Location(s): Austria, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s towards WW2
When seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist...
- Location(s): Chester-le-Street
- Genre(s): Romance, Cozy Mystery, Historical
- Era(s): 1915
In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham. Anne works for the enigmatic owner Mr Jack. She is highly efficient and whips Mr Jack’s disorganised office – and Mr Jack...
- Location(s): The Mediterranean, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONDON. EARLY MORNING. A body is found in a padlocked suitcase. Investigator Emma Makepeace knows it’s murder. And it’s personal. She quickly establishes that the dead man had been shadowing two oligarchs suspected of procuring illegal weapons in the...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A highly topical thriller about a Russian plot to cut the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Also, a passionate love story between two people determined to stop this cataclysmic act. Clive Franklin, a Russian language...
- Location(s): Tunisia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Howard Ingham finds it strange that no one has written to him since he arrived in Tunisia – neither the film director that he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York who is,...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Ko Samet
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
How well do you know your friends? Four friends on the holiday of a lifetime. Until a vicious murder shatters their paradise. Four friends who’d do anything for each other, until now. Only one of them committed a crime....
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1723-1741
When they took everything from her, they didn’t count on her fighting to get it back… Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherine I, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world’s loveliest Princess...
- Location(s): Rajasthan
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1600s
An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India’s most controversial empresses — a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love shaped the course...
- Location(s): Athens, Crete, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter...
- Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
In Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, Aaron meets Angela in a bar. He has no way of knowing that she has sought him out because he is a White man about to move into District Six – an...
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