- Location(s): Aleppo, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Consistently receiving 5-star ratings, The Other Half of My Soul; is a gripping story about an American-born Syrian Jew from Brooklyn and a Syrian-born Shi-ite Muslim from Aleppo. The book raises profound questions about personal choices, commitments, responsibility, and...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
You want to be one of them. Until you know them. Ex-journalist Tash has been searching for a story to launch her freelance career. But she has also been searching for something else: new friends to help her navigate...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway,...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl’s face appear in the rear window. She mouths one word: ‘Daddy.’ It’s his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again. Three years later,...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
When the reward is the most costly sacrifice of all In a southern farming community in 1925, thirteen-year-old Salvatore and his Italian immigrant father become involved against their will in a crime that results in the murder of an...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Small towns have a way of burying things, and small-town people have a way of keeping things that way. With reminiscence and narration, a local sheriff must comb through his own humid world to unravel the truth behind the...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father’s character;...
- Location(s): Australia, Cambridge, India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the letterbox...
- Location(s): Cambridge, Tehran
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the world is turned upside down, who can you trust? Cambridge, England – a professor with links to Iran’s nuclear programme is found dead on a park bench, a victim of poisoning by persons unknown. At the same...
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