- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
London is the world’s most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the...
- Location(s): Perth
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
Perth, Australia, towards the end of WW2.The Lambs and the Pickles are forced by dint of circumstance to share a run down house on Cloudstreet. Each member has his/her story to tell in lovely rendered detail and everyday experience....
- Location(s): Bergen
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn’t been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she’d turned away a customer...
- Location(s): Värmland
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods. It’s week one of the Swedish elk hunt and the sound of...
- Location(s): Florence, Sardinia (Sardegna)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2013. Florence, 1965. A man is found murdered, a pair of scissors stuck through his throat. Only one thing is known about him – he was a loan shark, who ruined...
- Location(s): Ghent
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Veerle has moved to Ghent to start a new life with her father and his girlfriend, she’s isolated and alone. But not as alone as she had thought . . . Veerle recognises a familiar face in the crowds...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
12 short stories…..Cornwall’s magic casts some pretty strong spells. The stories in Lucy Wood’s debut collection have a distinctly otherworldly sensation to them – slightly surreal, steeped in enchantments and shimmering with an infusion of the area’s folklore and...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
A novel seen throught the eyes of two young men, a wealthy white New Yorker, Michael Cooke Holt and black preacher, Elijah Broom. Michael lives off his wealth and during one of his aimless wanderings to pass the time...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern looking back 2 centuries
Following the unexplained disappearance of her parents, and in a last ditch attempt to save the antique store she has inherited from financial ruin, Sarah Lester takes on a deceased estate. Amongst the estate is a collection of fifteen...
- Location(s): China, India
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter – and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China – territory forbidden to foreigners – to steal...
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