- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family’s farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and...
- Location(s): Ibiza
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Four friends. One dream getaway. But who will make it out alive? When the gold-rimmed invitations arrive through the doors of best friends Simone, Hannah and Vicky they’re instantly taken aback. Their ex-friend Jodie is inviting them to a...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
- Era(s): 1943
Tuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles from any big city and appears rooted in an earlier century. Seen from there, even the war looks different–it is mostly a matter of waiting, praying, and mourning. As...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the jungle, dreams and nightmares coexist. Colombia’s Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack...
- Location(s): Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In the aftermath of Bangladesh s bloody war of independence in 1971, as thousands of migrants from the countryside flood the capital, journalist Khaleque Biswas begins to feel the stirrings of disillusionment. The revolutionary spirit that had filled the...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1956
1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster’s son and a farmer’s boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives. Meanwhile, Mark and Ally,...
The Black Gentlemen of Trong Suan
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In southern Thailand a young man arrives in a small town during a lightening storm with nothing more than his wits, a small fortune and an old mans diary. He sets up what appears to be an idle life...
- Era(s): 1920s to present day
Uprooted from her Shanghai childhood, young Cassandra is sent with her father and twin brother to live on the Black Isle. A teeming British colony in the Indonesian archipelago, the Isle is a seaport haunted by a restive multitude...
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