- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1790s
The 18th century is drawing to a close, and unrest grips France. Tarare has been born into a life of slender means, but when a sudden act of violence ignites in him a ferocious appetite, his extraordinary abilities to...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1900
An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham Hall – a world of privilege far removed from his own – for the scorchingly hot summer of 1900 appears innocuous, but Leo soon finds himself drawn...
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s and 1990s
A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks. The adult world is seen through...
- Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1917, WW1
James is sent away to live with his mill-town relatives in this nostalgic, coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of Dundee during WW1. Some summers were made for growing up…Dundee, 1917. When his father goes to fight in the...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A joyously satisfying will-they-won’t-they love story about a young woman finding her feet and forging her own destiny, set against the backdrop of the Trinidadian beauty industry. Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian high...
- Location(s): Adirondacks
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the family deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Current Day
When seventeen-year-old Alicia turns up on her godmother’s doorstep and asks if she can stay, Carina can’t say no to the godchild she hasn’t seen in over a decade. In a way, Alicia is the daughter she always wanted....
- Location(s): India, Windsor
- Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
- Era(s): 19th Century
A beguiling novel of Victorian theft and obsession from the bestselling author of THE SOMNAMBULIST. Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their...
- Location(s): Warsaw, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 2000s
Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux – 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen… and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has...
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