- 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...
The Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy
- Location(s): United Kingdom, Gwynedd
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 450 AD
The first book in the Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy, The Kingmaking is a retelling of the Arthur legend – but a gritty, realistic one looking at the chaos and jostling for power after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread:...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1930
It’s open season at Penford Manor! But someone has murder in their sights… At Penford Manor, the guests are arriving to celebrate the start of the grouse-hunting season: lords and ladies, barons and baronesses, a Member of Parliament –...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1990s
Brighton, during the glorious Britpop summer of 1995.A second hand bookshop becomes the centre of a serial killer investigation when vintage penguin books are left at murder scenes. Luke Redfern has just inherited the bookshop Red Books from his...
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