- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Children, Adventure
- Era(s): 79AD
It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl,...
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a year infiltrating their lives. For centuries, stories of pirates have captured...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today. Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she...
The Pit and the Passion: Murder at the Ghost Hotel
- Location(s): Longboat Key
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
At midnight, in the darkness of a deserted hotel, comes a scream and a splash. Eighty-five years later, workmen uncover a skeleton in an old elevator shaft. Who is it, and how did it get there? To find out,...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Fleeing professional scandal and a broken engagement, veterinarian Hannah Linden abandons Chicago for the mountain town of Sanctuary, West Virginia, hoping to put her troubles with men and the media behind her. But when she encounters world-famous chef Adam...
- Location(s): West Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Ballycove, the home of Corrigan Mills… Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Irish countryside the famed Corrigan Mills are run by the seemingly perfect Corrigan family, but every family has its secrets, and they don’t always...
- Location(s): Lake Como
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Christmas and New Year on Lake Como…. Lucy may have suffered her fair share of bad men, but now she has Pete. Finally, a man worth sharing her favourite place with, Lake Como. That’s if she can put mysterious...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author – her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared...
- Location(s): West London, The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980 & 2018
Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children’s lives were changed for ever. Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn’t tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest...
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