- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Named NOW Magazine’s Best Emerging Local Author Where We Have to Go is a luminous and sassy first novel about the last days of childhood in a family coming apart at the seams. At once wryly humorous and deeply...
- Location(s): Seattle, Antarctica
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner: to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace: to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and,...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern, late 70s/80s
Jo Becker looks back on her life.In her early twenties she suffered a life crisis, walked out of her marriage, got a job in a bar in Boston and changed her name. She shared a house in a quasi...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1979
“Whirlwind” is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. They are ordered...
- Location(s): Savannah
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When his beloved wife Nina suddenly dies – after 23 years of life together – Alberto Landi understands he has to leave Milan Italy, where he has always lived and worked. He leaves his friends, colleagues, a good job...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern
This book follow on from Rivers of London and Moon over Soho. Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And its just as well – he’s already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a...
- Location(s): Gaborone
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Botswana, 1976. Isaac Muthethe thinks that he is dead. Forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force, he finds himself, for the first time, in a country without...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1960s
The narrator, the reticent Kate, who is 12, and her teenage sister, the boisterous Frankie, are American girls living in Hong Kong in the summer of 1967. Their father, Michael, a photographer for Time magazine, spends most of each...
- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
This is set in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic, and is an aborbing crime thriller. The central character is Edie Kiglatuk, an tiny Inuit woman with a determination that is stunning, as she investigates a murder.
White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2)
- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim – a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the...