- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
AN UNFORGETTABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SET IN THE DARK, GOTHIC HEART OF RURAL AUSTRALIA The moment he dies, the room explodes with life. Joy Henderson returns to the family farm to nurse her dying father. To the outside world, George...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1826
In Ireland in 1826 millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation. The landlords ground down the tenant famers; tithe wars and injustice were rife. But Dualta Duane battles against tyranny, struggling to survive the evils of hunger, poverty and...
- Location(s): South Wales
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
A woman’s memory about a fatal attack starts to return. But what she knows could endanger her life. One morning Gwen Thomas takes a short walk with her Siberian husky in the outskirts of the Welsh town she calls...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1919
Seventeen-year-old Margot Allan was a respectable vicar’s daughter and madly in love with her fiancé Harry. But when Harry was reported Missing in Action from the Western Front, and Margot realised she was expecting his child, there was only...
The Silent Steppe: the Story of a Kazakh Nomad under Stalin
- Location(s): Kazakhstan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1930s and 1940s
If you read just 1 book about Kazakhstan, let it be this one. While the devastating famine in Ukraine is fairly well-known, the death and displacement of millions of Kazakhs in the same period of Stalin’s reign is almost...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
A covert cop becomes a target when she picks the wrong cover story The Treadwater Estate has become the epicentre of a series of strange events. People go missing. Bodies are found – buried and wrapped in clingfilm. Yet...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): modern
Moments. Our lives are a collection of moments. Some utterly painful and full of yesterday’s hurts. Some beautifully hopeful and full of tomorrow’s promises. I’ve had many moments in my lifetime, moments that changed me, challenged me. Moments that...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1952, French Indochina. Since her mother’s death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk...
- Location(s): Deya (Deià)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. She wants his life story. He wants her everything. A whirlwind romance takes them to the highs and lows of Deià. But beneath them lie the bodies of a...
- Location(s): China, Central Asia, Europe
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
‘Immensely entertaining … so ambitious, so detailed, so fascinating’ The Times For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out...
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