- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Mackerel the intrepid exploring cat. He is taken on various trips to the Lake District with his owners where he can explore on paw the fells and pikes, or retreat to his special cat-back-pack if he wants to take...
- Location(s): Tanna (Tana), Vanuatu
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
As a bookish child growing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. He even had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. Years later, his Philip-worship long...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Aimée’s childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure’s...
- Location(s): Corfu
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1930s
Sometimes it’s pretty hard to tell them apart… my family and the animals, that is. I don’t know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house,...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
This is in fact No. 4 in the series, as Batman and Cockroaches (1 and 2)are not available in English. Harry Hole and his team are in a race against time to crack the identity of a violent bank...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Nightingale & Co is the first in a cosy historical crime series featuring the sisters of the Nightingale & Co detective agency in 1960s Berlin. Since the death of her beloved father, Carla has been running the Nightingale &...
- Location(s): Nice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice. Quite Nice With its...
- Location(s): Mataura
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 1 in the PC Sam Shephard series. Action-packed, tension-filled and atmospheric police procedural set in rural New Zealand. When the body of a young mother is found washed up on the banks of the Mataura River, a small...
- Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other...
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
- Era(s): 1943
Rome, one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naive, the war is for her little more than a daydream, until she...
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