- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70 and early 2000s
Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can’t even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom...
- Location(s): Nuoro, Sardinia (Sardegna)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1943 - 1978
Vincenzo Chironi sets foot for the first time on the island of Sardinia – ‘a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean’ – in 1943, a year of famine and malaria. All he has with him is an old...
- 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...
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