- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
This is set in an alternate ETHIOPIA What the heart desires, the house destroys… Andromeda is a debtera – an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn’t...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
From the international bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul comes a novel based on true events that explores the depths of pride, devotion, and persistence as four generations of a family struggle to forge their destinies. As Hitler’s...
- Location(s): Wivenhoe, Essex
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1990s
Eight-year old Maisie Brown disappears during Tanniford’s annual fete. Tanniford lies in the bend of a river and the only road out is over the railway bridge which was closed during the fete. DCI Millson believes Maisie has been...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman...
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1966 - 1990s
Providing an account of her battle with an abusive man and with bureaucracy, this is the story of a woman’s fight against a violent and tyrannical relationship, and her struggle to reclaim her two daughters, sold into marriage in...
- Location(s): County Limerick
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th/19th Century
When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the...
- Location(s): London, Oxford, Paris, Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities – Paris, Venice, London and Oxford – when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had...
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite
- Location(s): Pyongyang
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il’s reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her freedom from domestic abuse. To Solomon it was the ultimate betrayal. It’s been ten years since Rebecca’s testimony saw Solomon locked away. Enough time for the nightmares to...
- Location(s): Wivenhoe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Alternate present
“Never thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turning of the tide; its rich, bird-shit stink after a hot day and a couple of pints at the Rose. Or...
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