When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village, the local police tell her mother and the villagers that she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee finds a box containing evidence...

Equal parts transporting love story and gripping historical conspiracy – think ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’ meets ‘Outlander’ – debut author Melodie Winawer takes readers deep into medieval Italy, where the past and present blur and a twenty-first...

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as...

There is no love lost between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family. So when its steely matriarch dies with no will to be found, the seeds of an inheritance dispute are sown. Yet her legacy...

‘All the arts are close to us because they allow us to recontextualise, to understand where we are, what we are, who we are. The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout re-contextualises things so we really understand the world from...

One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets… Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked...

The four of them had sat upon the fallen stones the night before Iris left. Like the stones in their rings, the sisters were meant to stay together. Now they were scattered across the world. 1931. When Iris Blackmore’s...

1973. Malik has always been something of a misfit. Born to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, he has one eye of black and one of watery-blue. As a child his mother’s people refused to touch him and...

1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his wife, and their children. In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson imagines what history...

Daring, tragic, haunting, and unforgettable – Mascull is a superb writer. – Louisa Treger , author of The Dragon Lady 1940 London A man learns a shocking truth about his past. Warsaw A mother writes a diary as the...