- Location(s): Wyoming
- Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Joe Pickett always knew there’d be a day of reckoning. And now that day has come. Two years ago, his daughter was beaten and dumped by the side of a country road. Joe’s determination to avenge her forced him...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mainly 1954
When Hubert Larnaudie invites some fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink an exceptional bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties. The following morning, Hubert finds himself waking up in 1950s Paris,...
- Location(s): Russia, Mongolia, Ulan Bator / Ulaanbaatar
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present
Carrie’s best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they’d planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone. Violet is also travelling alone, after splitting up with her boyfriend in Thailand. She is...
- Location(s): The Pennines
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2010
In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
- Era(s): 1820s
A BATTLE FOR HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMY South Africa, 1820 When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy....
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Some secrets you keep from your family. And some secrets you keep for your family. When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk-driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride...
- Location(s): Bergen, Norway
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1990s
1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he’s made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust...
- Location(s): Bushmanland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2009
Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s,
WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham — aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s....
What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
- Location(s): Kingston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to...
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