- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Small towns have a way of burying things, and small-town people have a way of keeping things that way. With reminiscence and narration, a local sheriff must comb through his own humid world to unravel the truth behind the...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father’s character;...
- Location(s): Australia, Cambridge, India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the letterbox...
- Location(s): Cambridge, Tehran
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the world is turned upside down, who can you trust? Cambridge, England – a professor with links to Iran’s nuclear programme is found dead on a park bench, a victim of poisoning by persons unknown. At the same...
- Location(s): Nigeria, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of Nigeria by their journalist father to escape the corrupt military government and growing violence. They are sent to their uncle in London, but...
The Other Times of Caroline Tangent
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Time Slip
- Era(s): Contemporary
If you could travel back in time to see any concert, who would you go to see? 2021, North London. The home of Caroline and Jon Tangent. But it’s no ordinary suburban life. Jon has invented a time machine...
The Other Woman #18 Gabriel Allon
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
She was his best-kept secret … In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old,...
The Other Worlds: Offbeat Adventures of a Curious Traveler
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Present day
The Other Worlds: Offbeat Adventures of a Curious Traveler takes the reader on journeys from Cuba to China, from Finland to the Tip of South America, and from the author’s birthplace on Minnesota’s Iron Range to his tin-roofed shack...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A nameless young university student in Saudi Arabia has no contact with men outside her family, so when the charming Dai seduces her, her feelings of guilt are overwhelmed by the need for intimacy. Dai introduces her to a...
- Location(s): Germany, Rostock
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1980s
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 The location is fictional although believed to be modelled on Rostock. Three young people from vastly different backgrounds – Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo –...
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