The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove 1)
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1606
Gunpowder and treason changed England forever. But the tides are turning and revenge runs deep in this compelling historical thriller for fans of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor’s Ashes of London , Kate Mosse and Blood & Sugar . 1606....
- Location(s): Essex
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A hotel brimming with wealthy guests Surrounded by the Blackwater estuary, The Stanhope hotel sits on a beautiful remote island. Tonight is the grand reopening, and organiser Hannah watches the guests with pride. Celebration leads to tragedy But as...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s our son, Sam . . . someone took him. Please help us’ Emma hoped that she and her family would return from their year abroad closer, with memories to last a lifetime. Instead, they returned minus one child....
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to early 2000s
EVERY PLACE HAS ITS GHOSTS. Edenscar, a town in the Peak District, has more than most. 17 years ago, its inhabitants were hit by tragedy when a school bus veered off the road and everyone on board drowned. Everyone,...
- Location(s): Dubrovnik
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a tiny bookshop in Dubrovnik’s historic Old Town, a book club begins… Newly arrived on the sun-drenched shores of Croatia, Claire Thomson’s life is about to change forever when she starts working at a local bookshop. With her...
- Location(s): The Dolomites
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 Outside Vallorgana, a tiny, isolated village high in the foothills of the Dolomites, the ‘Duke’ lives in the villa of his aristocratic ancestors. The last in the centuries’ old line of the...
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
- Location(s): Kent
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and...
- Location(s): Germany, Argentina, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s and 1970s
Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1978
The dark side of South Korea’s “”economic miracle”” emerges in The Dwarf, Cho Se-hui’s enormously popular and critically acclaimed work. First published in 1978, it speaks to the painful social costs of reckless industrialization, even as it tellingly portrays...
- Location(s): Kent
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Detective Kay Hunter Book 12) When a man is shot at point blank range outside an isolated country pub, Kay Hunter is thrust into one of the most dangerous cases of her career. As personal and political disputes threaten...
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