- Location(s): Bangladesh, London, New York City (NYC), Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A breathtaking debut novel from an exciting new voice in fiction – coming July 2022! Nasrin and Sabrina are two sisters, who on the face of things live successful and enviable lives in London and New York. When their...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson. Lena, now forty-five and tired of being “the hand everyone fans with,” has grown weary...
- Location(s): London
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award and a Sunday Times bestseller, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE by Maggie O’Farrell is a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood from the author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE....
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Daisy does nights and Nate does days, which causes no end of hilarity at the Manchester Museum of Social History. ‘It should be Daisy on days and Nate on nights,’ Marion on the reception says to her at least...
The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Cafe
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have never had to help a client find herself—until now, in this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s best-selling and beloved series. A...
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
- Location(s): Liège, Paris
- Genre(s): Mystery, Novella
- Era(s): 20th Century
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
DI John Rebus is hard at work on multiple cases. Not only is he on the trail of a WWII war criminal – he’s also become entangled in a dangerous battle between two rival gangs. But when his daughter...
- Location(s): Bornholm, Denmark
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the middle of a hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive at first, but...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): late 1970s onwards
Anh Do nearly didn’t make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing – not murderous pirates, nor the imminent...
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