- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1510
Venice, 1510. The world’s greatest artists gather to enjoy fame, fortune, and colour. When a wealthy merchant discovers a mysterious new pigment, he knows it would create a masterpiece in the right hands. For struggling artist Giorgione ‘Zorzo’ Barbarelli,...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the Gaborone City Council, Mma Ramotswe is unsure until she learns that developers plan to build the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard....
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
- Era(s): 2021
The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But according to witnesses, he may not have done this...
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt ‘Papa Doc’ and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man...
- Location(s): North Africa, Paris
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller
A thrilling debut that has been likened to John Le Carré and Raymond Chandler… Paris, 2037. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust...
- Location(s): The Northside
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey ‘The Lips’ Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1981
The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1959 - 1989
In this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy. When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s and modern day
Précis Courtesy of Goodreads: 1932 – Twelve-year-old Billy Shaw lives in a palace. Potter’s Pleasure Palace – the best entertainment venue this side of the Pennines, complete with dancing and swing-boats and picnickers and a roller-skating rink. Billy’s ma...
- Location(s): Sussex
- Genre(s): Mystery, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a grand old mansion in the middle of the Sussex countryside, seven people have seen more than they should… The new chilling thriller from Lesley Thomson. James Ritchie was looking forward to a boys’ day out with his...
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