- Location(s): Iran, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): AD 79
As addictive as Game of Thrones, and perfect for fans of Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy, The Exiled is a stunning novel of power, treachery and ambition. A.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king vying for the...
- Location(s): Australia, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller, Espionage
- Era(s): Contemporary
A fresh and vivid new voice brings a contemporary edge to the classic espionage novel. At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he’s working quietly on a breakthrough in self-driving...
- 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...
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