- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rayna Dumont is getting a fresh start in Amsterdam. Following a nasty divorce, she takes a jet-setting new job and embraces the single life. All seems to be going well until she wakes up in the bed of Xander...
- Location(s): Lucerne
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Switzerland in winter: Snow upon snow, everywhere to disappear, nowhere to hide… From the #1 bestselling author of London Bridge is Down comes an atmospheric, twisty and suspenseful mystery set in one of the most beautiful places...
- Location(s): Turkmenistan, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
“American businessman Nick Grocchi is framed and in prison in a foreign land. Facing a life-threatening illness. Can he survive long enough to find out who framed him and why? What readers say about The Expendable Man: * …one...
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
- Genre(s): Children
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists...
- Location(s): Poland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
“Exciting. . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale”–The Boston Globe Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet, in the 1970s and 1980s, about...
- Location(s): Córdoba
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 10th century
A story of intrigue, betrayal and murder set in the royal court of 10th century Andalusia.When the caliph of al-Andalus, al-Hakim II, dies leaving an eleven-year-old boy as his heir, Queen Subh knows that her son is in danger—other...
The Eye of the Falcon (al-Andalus Series Book 2)
- Location(s): Córdoba
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 10th century
Captured by slavers and brought to Córdoba as a child, Subh has risen to become the most powerful woman in the realm. A woman of great intelligence, beauty and ambition, she does not intend to let her enemies win....
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1964 and earlier
Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master. Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1872
Set in the London of 1872 this is the first novel in the series of the Sussex labourer who becomes young Constable Jack Sargent, experiencing crime as he moves between Camberwell, Stepney and Whitechapel and learning from the men...
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