- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1991
When Sophie collapses on the set of a television drama, she is forced to take stock of her life. Suspecting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the BBC doctor prescribes an unusual treatment: “Keep a diary.” So, armed with watercolours and with...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Victorian era
Galápagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin’s estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
At dawn on a lonely stretch of road, a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier, DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent, she’s...
- Location(s): Galveston, Louisiana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s
Roy Cady is by his own admission ‘a bad man’. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he’s a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss’s lover, he’s...
- Location(s): Scotland, Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2016
When a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case. While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later,...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
In the mid 90s, Elizabeth Booth is a young British college student studying Arabic at Durham University. With some travel and work already under her belt, she excels at her studies and is sent to Damascus to immerse herself...
Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, the geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha....
Gelato Sisterhood on the Amalfi Shore
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Warmed by the brilliant Campania sun and the lemon-scented breeze off shimmering Mediterranean waters, the Amalfi Coast has been seducing travelers since Roman times. Lush terraced mountainsides brimming with grape vines and olive groves tumble down to meet the...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
A gripping, multi award-winning, debut YA novel from First Nations Australian author Lisa Fuller, drawing on the culture and spiritual beliefs of her close-knit community. Stacey and Laney are twins and mirror images of each other but as different...
- Location(s): The Black Country
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
‘‘I was born in the Black Country and have lived there most of my life. I’ve always felt that it, and the texture of its part-industrial, part-rural landscape provokes a unique sensation of place, and I try to emulate...
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