- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ivy Lin was a thief. But you’d never know it to look at her… Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant growing up in a low-income apartment complex outside Boston, is desperate to assimilate with her American peers. Her parents disapprove,...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 90s-present day
Northern Ireland, Good Friday, 1998. The Belfast Peace Agreement is signed, the Troubles are officially over. This should be the start of a new life for nine year-old Cian Duffy. But growing up in peace-torn Belfast is not easy...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present
The third in the D.I. Dylan series, set in Yorkshire and written by the husband and wife team who are the storyline consultants to TV’s Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey. Work continues to dictate Dylan’s life and a...
- Location(s): Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Peace Corps volunteer Michael Killigan goes missing in West Africa, his father Randall and his best friend Boone Westfall begin separate quests to find him. Randall, a bankruptcy lawyer, is the warlord of his world, a shark in...
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmad Jaber found in a mound of garbage? Why had this civil servant disappeared weeks before his horrific death? Who was this man? A journalist begins to piece together an answer by speaking...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Historical, Biography
- Era(s): 1940s
Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
There is something intoxicating about a secret. There’s something terrifying about a shadow war. You may not know much about Laos or the world of WHITE POWDER. You aren’t supposed to. Drugs, sex, and murder combined with personal and...
- Location(s): Hackney
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
1978: The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. To counter their influence, anti-fascist groups launch the Carnival Against Racism in Victoria Park. Observing the event is Detective Constable Patrick Noble, charged with investigating racist attacks in the area...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Lithuania
- Genre(s): Fiction
White Shroud is considered by many as the most important work of modernist fiction in Lithuanian. Drawing heavily on the author’s own refugee and immigrant experience, this psychological, stream-of-consciousness work tells the story of an émigré poet working as...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s-90s
This is a hilarious and poignant story of two North London families, headed by Archie and by Archie’s best friend and Samas Iqbal, a Muslim originally from Bengal. An unlikely friendship they served together in the Second World War....
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