- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
The Edgar Award winning thriller The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting form with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
For generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege—as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly....
- Location(s): Louisville
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): early 21st century
When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it’s to discover he’s been robbed. The only item stolen—a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers....
- Location(s): Paris, Zurich
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The first in the Bourne trilogy. (From the back cover): He has no past. And he may not have a future. All he knows is that he was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence...
- Location(s): North Wales
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Ben Robson can’t remember a time before he had the Box, with its three mischief-making demon occupants: smelly, cantankerous Orff, manically destructive Kartofel and fat, slobbering greedy-guts Djinn. When Ben was a kid it was fun, and he enjoyed...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
MOTHER. LIAR. MURDERER? When Genevieve’s seven-year-old son is found bleeding to death in his own home, she’s horrified when the police turn to her for answers. There’s no evidence of a break-in, and parts of Genevieve’s story don’t seem...
The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2014
This is a powerful and deeply moving novel chronicling the Syrian War through the eyes of 14 year old Adam who has Asperger Syndrome. It has been adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play. ‘I have the urge to...
- Location(s): County Donegal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s-1990s
In 1973 on the west coast of Ireland, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Who is he? Where is he from? What changes will he bring? Ambrose, a local fisherman, is far more interested in who he...
- Location(s): East Anglia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1963
Jack Curtis is one of life’s natural survivors. Arriving at his new boarding school, in rural East Anglia, in 1963, Jack’s expecting all the pampering of his colonial childhood in Africa and Asia to continue. But he’s in for...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbour set his stepmother alight. Or so Lindiwe Bishop believes, though eighteen months later the charges against Ian McKenzie are dropped and he returns home, full of charm and swagger....
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