- 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...
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th century
After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
No. 1 in the Dr Ruth Galloway series WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY. A child’s bones are discovered on the windswept Norfolk marshes. Believing them to be ancient, the police call in Dr Ruth Galloway,...
The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad’s regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to...
- Location(s): Wyoming, Montana
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is unconscious after being shot in the head. He was found slumped behind the wheel of his pickup at a crossroads linking the ranches of three powerful...
- Location(s): Europe, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2013
Winner – Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019. ‘Moving and thought-provoking’ Observer ‘An extraordinary travelogue, strange and brilliant’ i ‘A beguiling portrait of one young man’s search into the hidden corners of Europe’ Sunday Times In 2013...
- Location(s): Lahore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): late 19th century
Seeking fortune and opportunity, Faredoon ‘Freddy’ Junglewalla and his family – his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and burdensome mother-in-law – move from their ancestral village in rural India to the bustling metropolis of Lahore. Welcomed by the small but...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
It starts with just one body – the hands bound, the skin covered in marks. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible, despite opposition from her superiors. When two more bodies are discovered, it...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A story full of wonderful characters’ ‘It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
The Eternal One At our human limits, when we’ve gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and...
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