- Location(s): Antarctica, Geneva
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
For millennia it has lain there undiscovered. Now the time has come… Research scientist Evelyn Edwards always knew the Antarctic held deep secrets but the discovery of a 40,000 year old body buried under the ice caps surpasses even...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is...
- Location(s): Delhi, India, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted – until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred...
- Location(s): Orkney Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously-matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor: she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how...
- Location(s): Australia, England
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 19th Century
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent–a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms–could a...
- Location(s): Berlin, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their battered...
- Location(s): Lake Orta
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Ginny and Adam Trustlove arrive on holiday in Italy torn apart by personal tragedy. Two weeks in a boathouse on the edge of peaceful Lake Orta is exactly what they need to restore their faith in life – and...
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Pre revolutionary Havana, where anything can be obtained by means. Greene skewers British Intelligence. James Wormold is a mild-mannered, marginal businessman and vacuum cleaner salesman, is approached by MI6 and is unwillingly recruited as “Our Man in Havana”. As...
- Location(s): Exmoor
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One night, two strangers. A damage that cannot be undone. For thirty years, Howard and Deborah Morgan have poured all their energy and modest savings into Stoneyridge, a smallholding deep in the English moors. Howard putters with pottery, Deborah...