- Location(s): Bahrain, Manama
- Genre(s): Political, Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
WINNER OF THE 2024 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2024 BARRY BEST FIRST MYSTERY OR CRIME NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE 2024 MACAVITY...
- Location(s): India, Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Raj era
Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and companion, the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
The highly anticipated second novel from the author of acclaimed The Secret Starling – a spectacular adventure set through and under the streets of Paris. When Penelope Magnificent’s awful parents tell her they’re taking a trip to Paris, she...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The seventh book in Sujata Massey’s Agatha and Macavity Award-winning mystery series is a witty, suspenseful story that takes its young sleuth into the Washington DC restaurant world. A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start...
- Location(s): Kuwait
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Gulf War
Private Tommy Trang is the best marine imaginable; he’s smart, daring, physically fit, and patriotic to the core. California surfer Cody “Cowboy” Carmichael acts as his co-conspirator and Boswell during the Gulf War as the two AWOL marines sneak...
- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War 2
As World War Two looms closer, a young woman travels to a far-off tropical paradise on the promise of a new life, in this powerful and emotionally gripping love story. Penang, 1939: As Evie steps off the boat, the...
- Location(s): Bahrain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is a lovely little short story about Hassan, a poor Bahraini islander, who finds himself in desperate circumstances. Driven by the need to take care of his ageing parents, he embarks on the unthinkable; a pearl diving quest…...
- Location(s): Perth and Kinross
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): 1938
From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder – a mystery with all the suspense of an Agatha Christie and the intrigue of Downton Abbey. Sixteen-year-old Julie...
- Location(s): Islay
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present day and 1944
Islay. Remote and peaceful. Until a spade finds a human hand, a pointer to a crime. And under the peat, five corpses, unnamed, executed. Inspector Angus Blue builds his team. The evidence leads them to a wartime base. And...
The Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail is an easy-to-follow 96-mile trail that combines the best of inland and coastal walking in Norfolk, and one that, being well waymarked, largely flat and within easy reach of public...
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