- Location(s): China, San Francisco
- Era(s): Modern and pre-war
LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When the partially clothed body of a woman is discovered on Dartmoor, all eyes are on one man. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict Kendwick of his suspected crimes in America, but DI Charlotte Savage is determined to bring...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
He wasn’t aging: he was growing up. Bonfire’s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn’t just Wolfe’s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from...
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 1990
An enigmatic boss. Suspicious results. Stock market shenanigans. Can Sam Harris get to the bottom of it before they silence her? Geologist Sam Harris has been round the block, but she’s prone to nostalgia, so she snatches the chance...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
DCI Lomond Crime Thrillers Book 1 A stolen child. A killer stalking the streets of Glasgow. A troubled detective running out of time. Five years ago, DCI John Lomond led the search for notorious Glasgow child-killer ‘The Sandman’, until...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): WW2, 1940s
This is a classic wartime tale of a (real!) cat who made his home at the Faber offices and decided he’d never leave. ‘This time we need to get you – get all of the kittens, safe out of...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins crafts an unforgettable story about a sleepy Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a truly magical friendship. Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books have always been more than...
- Location(s): Dun Laoghaire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Izzy O’Brien flees the city centre apartment she shared with her controlling partner, she relocates to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, and the house she inherited from her aunt. Isolated and insecure, Izzy is relieved to be...
- Location(s): Cambridgeshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A group of old friends reunite for an idyllic week-long retreat. By Friday, their lives will never be the same again… In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a week-long writers’ retreat. There...
- Location(s): Harlem
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far...
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