- 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...
The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper club
- Location(s): Orvieto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four Italian rural women gather in a derelict stone house in the hills above Italy’s Orvieto. There – along with their friend, Marlena – they cook together, sit down to...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Thailand, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ‘Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From his office on the Street of the Assassins, Nathan Sutherland, English Honorary Consul to Venice, assists unfortunate tourists as best he can. A steady but unexciting life that dramatically changes when he is offered a large sum of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland’s birthday is about to be ruined. A night at the opera at La Fenice is always a memorable experience –...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes she has the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She’s wrong. Leo...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post WW2
The first in an internationally bestselling historical mystery series featuring straight-talking, champagne-drinking, fast-driving female private investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Lisa Scottoline. It’s 1946 and WWII may be over, but...
- Location(s): Cyprus, Greek Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Orestis is a young man who refuses to accept his lot in life. He wants a better job, a toned body, his own place, a brighter future. On a night out, he bumps into an old school friend who...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1847
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 McILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder. In the city’s Old Town a number of young women have been found dead, all having...
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