- Location(s): Wivenhoe, Essex
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): 1990s
Even the most respectable people have secrets. Sometimes those secrets get them killed. Janet West and Laura Stebbing operate the mobile library that travels the villages of north-east Essex on a schedule as precise as a railway timetable. Janet...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused...
- Location(s): London, Highgate
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colourful notebooks, distracts her...
The Book of Beijing: Reading The City
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Beijing is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural change of Beijing over the last fifty years, creating a literary map of the city.
The Book of Birmingham (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Few cities have undergone such a radical transformation over the last few decades as Birmingham. Culturally and architecturally, it has been in a state of perpetual flux and regeneration, with new communities moving in, then out, and iconic post-war...
The Book of Bradford (A City In Short Fiction)
- Location(s): Bradford
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
In the year 1905, infamous occultist Aleister Crowley gets more than he bargained for on a passing visit to Bradford… A successful businessman, returning to his native city, suddenly finds himself overwhelmed by a yearning for his youth… A single-mother despairs...
The Book of Bratislava: A City in Short Fiction (Reading The City)
- Location(s): Bratislava
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A secret policeman investigates a library for stocking anti government literature, only to find himself applying for a library card… A man’s dreams are invaded by a dark, unsettling figure, the ghost of a thug who once menaced the...
The Book of Cairo (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment of his career: to find the ultimate Truth… A woman confesses her love to a reclusive, masked man in a video rental shop… A disgraced doctor confronts...
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1970s
The narrator of this novel is a rather charming lizard. He lives on Felix Ventura’s living-room wall, Felix, the lizard’s friend and hero of the story, is a man who sells pasts – if you don’t like yours, he...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1546
Longlisted for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlisted in the 2024 HWA Crown Awards ANNO DOMINI 1546. In a manor house in England a young woman feels the walls are closing around her, while her dying...
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