- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing...
- Location(s): Lynmouth
- Genre(s): Children, Noir, Short Stories
- Era(s): N/A
Beautiful places hide dark secrets … Devon’s very own crime writer L.V Hay (The Other Twin, Do No Harm) brings forth three new short stories from her dark mind and poison pen: – For kidnapped Meg and her young son Danny, In...
The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The fourth and most spooky Monstacademy mystery. The mountains are full of secrets… Trixie, Gloria and Colin are off on a trip to Peru to study ancient monsters. When they arrive and find that the children of the local...
- Location(s): The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
A British police detective’s latest case gets curiouser and curiouser in this hard-hitting novel by the author of The Devil’s Line. DSI Billie Wilde’s romantic relationship is intense—but it’s nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1885
‘Enter the danse of this little masterpiece and let yourself be dazzled. Assured of hitting the bestseller lists’ The Parisian; ‘Essential reading’ Cosmopolitan ‘A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de Coeur against the condition of women in this...
- Location(s): Baghdad, Amsterdam, Serbia
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980 to early 2000s
From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam… Blasim s stories present an uncompromising...
- Location(s): Catalonia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid/Late 19th Century
Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan,...
- Location(s): London, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
‘Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.’ Charles Cumming London, mid-1970s. A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature rises with each...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
The Madonnas of Leningrad, the first novel by Seattle professor Debra Dean, is the story of Marina, a young museum docent who takes refuge in the Hermitage during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. The paintings and artifacts are gone,...
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