- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1971
Alex Salim McKensie, a war baby of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, is adopted by the McKensies, an American family that has lost their only son in Vietnam. Years later, Alex falls in love with Sangeeta Rai, but...
- Location(s): Portobello
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Deceit runs in the family . . . Chris Morrison is facing his worst nightmare. His wife is in a coma. His daughter is missing. And the only thing more unsettling than these two events . . . is...
- Location(s): The Lake District, Cumbria
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
He’d found an angel for his collection. But one angel at a time was never enough…Detective Beth Young has just joined the Cumbrian major crimes team when a body is found posed in a ritualistic manner – arms spread...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s and modern
Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband’s past… Tuscany, Present...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to hide it from his peers and the people he’s...
- 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...
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