- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. In The Last London, he strikes out on a series of solitary walks and collaborative expeditions to...
- Location(s): Scotland, Kentucky, Napa Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 21st century
A multi-layered international romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat. A cat and mouse game between two corporate jet-setters that will take you from Scotland, to Kentucky, to California and back again. Meredith Montgomery, the...
- Location(s): China, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When security and fire alarms go off simultaneously all around the world, setting off a panic, the signal is traced back to China. As world leaders scramble to respond, mother and daughter Vivien and Alice Li are called to...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden inside the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art...
- Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1911
It is 1911, and a man boards a ship at the crowded docks in New York City. As he steps on board, the memories begin flooding back, and we learn he is no ordinary man, and this is no...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . . I am a bit...
The Last Murder at the End of the World
- Location(s): North Iceland
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Future
- Era(s): Future
An Observer Thriller of the Month Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in...
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1869
From the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a stunning historical novel about two outsiders who venture into the Forbidden Kingdom of Tibet, both driven by a motive they are desperate to keep secret...
- Location(s): Kirkuk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk during the 1950s, The Last of the Angels tells the slyly humorous tale of three strikingly different people in one small neighborhood. During a labor strike against the British-run Iraq Petroleum...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian Era
Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill...
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