- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first in the Department Q series At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1960s and 2002
* A missing singer * A doomed love story * A family split by secrets & lies 1967: Enigmatic young folk singer Molly Marrison disappears on the cusp of fame.2002: Silva is working as a housemaid at Chatsworth House...
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Imagine an ancient tree by a famous shrine, so powerful that visitors come from far and wide to commune with it by moonlight … When a run of bad luck lands Reito in prison, about to be sentenced, a...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th / 20th centuries
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise. Entrenched on the same land since the...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Flick’s big brother, Jack, goes missing in Peru and she is desperate to find him. But can she solve the greatest mystery of all: who Jack really is? A heartwarming, third novel from Waterstones Prize shortlisted author, Ewa Jozefkowicz,...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2019
Samantha thought following a mysterious diary around the French Quarter of New Orleans would be a harmless way to learn about her new hometown until it became about murder. Discover the places and people that make New Orleans unique...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s / Contemporary
As I turn the rusted key in the worn lock, I know the secrets beyond these faded walls might change my life forever… Can I breathe new life into the dusty corridors that my beloved aunt once walked? The...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20t century
Francis Chisholm is a compassionate and humble priest whose individuality and directness make him unpopular with other clergy. Considered a failure by his superiors, he is sent to China to maintain a mission amid desperate poverty, civil war, plague,...
- Location(s): Bradford, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. Jia Khan has always lived like this. A successful lawyer, her London life is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): American Civil War
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle....
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