The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
- Location(s): Middle East
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2015
One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East. Driven by...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1982
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving. ‘The writing is near perfect. But the novel’s excellence goes far beyond this ....
- Location(s): London, Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Victorian
A chilling historical mystery set against the gothic backdrop of Victorian London, The Small Museum won the Caledonia Novel Award in 2023 and is inspired by the extraordinary treasure trove of curiosities that is the Hunterian Museum in London....
- Location(s): New Orleans, Nashville
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
A young man agrees to drive an older woman and her granddaughter from New Orleans to her trailer in Nashville – a road trip that goes from bad to worse. Exhausted from over-work and suffering from the humidity of...
The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins in a tiny bedsit near the Bastille. Newly arrived from London, Rachel Khoo is trying to make a life for herself in Paris, carrying a British, Chinese-Malaysian and Austrian background, while juggling odd jobs, culinary school and...
The Smell of Other People’s Houses
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Love, tragedy, luck and salvation in the interweaving stories of four teenagers in this extraordinary 1970s Alaskan set debut novel. Alaska, 1970: growing up here is like nowhere else. Ruth wants to be remembered by her grieving mother. Dora...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Revolutionary
They should have been enemies, but they became brothers… Joseph Killeen was sent to eliminate the threat of savage enemies in the forests of New-York, but when he meets Ginawo and his peaceful village of Skarure, he realizes that...
The Smuggler’s Apprentice of Guatemala
- Location(s): Guatemala
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In London, the clandestine digital corridors of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) are thrown open as a list of intelligence officers is leaked online. With the identities of intelligence officers blown, and a secretive smuggling network developing in Guatemala,...
- Era(s): Early-to-mid nineteenth century
“Istanbul, 1838. In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying and the city swirls with rumors and alarms. The unexpected arrival of a French archaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community...
- Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea’s dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all...
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