- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Four women work nights together at a bento box factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, and form a friendship based on their mutual desperation at the quality of their home lives. Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her...
- Location(s): France, London, Sussex
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2005 - 2011
Patrick is a loving husband and father, but when his parents come to stay one summer, he is desperate to escape the memories they provoke. Their departure leaves him exhausted and overwhelmed. The last thing he remembers is strapping...
- Location(s): Athens, Crete, Spinalonga
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Selena Harper always thought she had the perfect job: working on a luxury cruiseship, she’s whisked around the world from Alaska to Zanzibar with excitement and adventure awaiting her in every port. But as she prepares for her latest...
Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...
- Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 20th Century and Modern
‘…a heady blend of wit, charm, and romantic sizzle, all wrapped around a tantalizing mystery.’ Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
This story of a cult messiah, Oyster, is set in an outback opal mining town in Queensland. The novel attempts to explore the clash of extreme cultural differences – the nature of evil, the relationship between good and evil...
- Location(s): Piura
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
John Segovia is many things – American, corpulent, shambolic, and obsessed with the history of South America. This history is what drew him to the city of Piura in the coastal desert of Peru, where every grain of sand...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Part memoir, part Irish travels, part lunatic endeavour, Jasper Winn’s account of paddling round Ireland in a kayak, during one the worst summers in recent history, is both hugely inspiring and entertaining. A journey of the mind – as...