- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
One night, the sounds of New York City–the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices–is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of...
- Location(s): Portugal
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
Father Amaro sours for ever the life of the young AmeliaSet in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Am elia, and their interactions with Am elia’s mother, her atheist suitor,...
- Location(s): Earl Soham
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too – a secret romance with a married lover based...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
A rural Welsh community is beset by a series of cruel murders… Putting his wedding plans on hold, Detective Winter Meadows resolves to unmask the serial killer on his patch. The only connection between the victims is the stick...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul, San Francisco, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Humour, Suspense
- Era(s): 2014
Young underemployed man in the East San Francisco Bay gets hired by mysterious tech company. Hilarity ensues. A scotch-swilling DUI attorney, a cynical congressional staffer, and a retired bomb- sniffing German Shepherd are just some of the characters Chuck...
- Location(s): Colonsay
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1969
In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in the land of his forefathers, the island of Colonsay seventeen square miles of dew and damp twenty-five miles off the coast of Scotland....
- Location(s): Cromarty
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1831
Cromarty, The Black Isle, 1831. As seagulls shriek and rise on the coastal winds, a circulating library in the bustling port town of Cromarty is meeting for the first time. Ostensibly united by a love of books, the demands...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Era(s): 1930s
- Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s / 1990s
East Timor hit the world’s newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia – one of the great expressions of a people’s democratic spirit and its oppression. Before that – as a Portuguese...
- Location(s): Mexico, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy’s critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World...
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