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The Hong Kong Widow

The Hong Kong Widow
  • Author(s): Kristen Loesch
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1953. Mei’s ‘gift’ of speaking to ghosts is one that she has endeavoured to bury while fighting to survive as a refugee in post-war, post-revolution Hong Kong. When former silent film star Holly Zhang invites Mei to the infamous...

The Honjin Murders

The Honjin Murders
  • Author(s): Seishi Yokomizo
  • Location(s): Okamura, Japan
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s

Japan’s greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid...

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Charley Fortnum is the ‘Honorary Consul’, a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of rebels. As Eduardo Plarr, a local doctor, negotiates with revolutionaries and the authorities for Fortnum’s release, the corruption of both becomes evident....

The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

This is the second novel in the Karla Trilogy. As the novel begins, George Smiley as head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, having been brought back from retirement to sort out the mess caused by a Soviet mole....

The Hope

The Hope
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2082

The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything...

The Hopkins Conundrum

The Hopkins Conundrum
  • Author(s): Simon Edge
  • Location(s): North Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A highly original mix of commercial fiction, literary biography and satirical commentary. Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard...

The Horn

The Horn
  • Author(s): John Clellon Holmes
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

From the acclaimed Beat Generation author of Go: The classic jazz novel of New York’s bebop scene and a brilliant musician’s tragic fall. Edgar Pool came up with the big bands. He spent the 1930s crisscrossing the country, playing...

The Horse Whisperer

The Horse Whisperer
  • Author(s): Nicholas Evans
  • Location(s): Montana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on...

The Horseman

The Horseman
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Pre-WW1

The West Country Trilogy #1 1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon–Somerset border, the seasons unfold, marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter. Skinny and...

The Horseman’s Graves

The Horseman’s Graves
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Baker
  • Location(s): Canada

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