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The Abersoch Killings

The Abersoch Killings
  • Location(s): Abersoch, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Keep your enemies close and your family closer… At his beachside mansion, with his large family and beautiful wife, Jack Rush celebrated his stepdaughter’s wedding: an extravagant, happy day. But that night, the movie producer is found in a...

The Abominables

The Abominables
  • Author(s): Eva Ibbotson, Jamie Littler (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Tibet
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A classic from beloved author Eva Ibbotson – now with a brand-new cover from Jamie Littler. How do you smuggle a family of yetis from Tibet to England? When Agatha Farlingham is kidnapped by a yeti on a mountain...

The Absolute Book

The Absolute Book
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Knox
  • Location(s): London, Auckland, Norfolk, Wye Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when...

The Abstainer

The Abstainer
  • Author(s): Ian McGuire
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Manchester, 1867: Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary....

The Abyss

The Abyss
  • Author(s): Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Location(s): Bruges
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval

Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

The Academy

The Academy
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets, rumours, and dangerous liaisons – at an elite New England boarding school, they come with the territory. It’s move-in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends reuniting, selfies uploading, and cars unloading, shocking news...

The Acapulco

The Acapulco
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city’s red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible...

The Accident

The Accident
  • Author(s): Chris Pavone
  • Location(s): Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In New York City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected and powerful literary agents in the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn hours. This manuscript – printed out, hand-delivered, totally anonymous –...

The Accident

The Accident
  • Author(s): Mihail Sebastian, Stephen Henighan (translator)
  • Location(s): Romania
  • Genre(s): Romance, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1930s

In the tradition of Sándor Márai, Mihail Sebastian is a captivating Central European storyteller from the first half of the twentieth century whose work is being rediscovered by new generations of readers throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United...

The Accident on the A35 Paperback

The Accident on the A35 Paperback
  • Author(s): Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • Location(s): North East France
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The...

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