- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow...
- Location(s): California, Palm Desert
- Genre(s): Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters, deeply divided...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being...
- Location(s): Vietnam, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was meant to be the perfect honeymoon. A five-star resort in paradise. White sands, a private villa and world-class cuisine. A chance for newlyweds Asha and Ollie Graveney to recover from a recent tragedy, and enjoy the holiday...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1920s
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised...
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day...
- Location(s): London, Lausanne, Montreux
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1976 - 2016
You only get one life – but what if it isn’t the one you were meant to live? When Jessica discovers a shocking secret about her birth, she leaves her London home and travels to Switzerland in search of...
- Location(s): Gdansk
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 and 1961
A detective risks everything in a city on the brink… Days before the outbreak of World War II, chief investigator of the Danzig Police Force, Johan Tal, gets called out to investigate a brutal murder. The crime scene is...
- Location(s): Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Serbia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s and Early 1900s
Historical fiction that presents a “what if” theory about the amount of involvement that Albert Einstein’s first wife (also a physicist) had in some of his most significant scientific contributions.
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and...
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