- Location(s): India, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Old and young. White and brown. Male and female. British. Indian. Other. Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain ― but will they see the same thing from the...
- Location(s): Transylvania, Romania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fairy Tales
- Era(s): N/A
Women imprisoned by superstition, chained by guilt. Perched on a mountain in a land of ancient forests is a village, rife with secrets. Cut off from the outside world it is run by the elders, men to whom tradition...
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a little boy is found with his neck broken, Lhasa detective Shan Lia leaves her broken past behind and throws herself into the investigation. He is the fifth child to die the same way in as many weeks....
- Location(s): Snowdonia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales....
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): late 20th century
One winter’s night, a snowman comes to life and an unforgettable adventure begins. Raymond Briggs’ classic is a true piece of Christmas magic – narrated entirely through pictures, it captures the wonder and innocence of childhood and is recognised...
- Location(s): Zanzibar, Cape Town, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Ex Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early...
- Location(s): Tanzania, World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 20th century
Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 1930s
A TOTALLY ABSORBING HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT SOCIALITES, SPIES, AND THE KING OF ENGLAND. London, 1936. Socialite and journalist Lady Pamela pens the popular ‘Agent of Influence’ column, writing wittily about fashion and high society. For her latest piece, she...
- Location(s): Europe, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s-60s
One ordinary school. Three extraordinary women … In the 1920s, three young girls enter a strict, cheerless convent school in a quiet London suburb. Six years later they leave, to change the world … Maureen was the movie star,...
The Society of Unknowable Objects
- Location(s): Hong Kong, London, The American South
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The world of unknowable objects – magical items that most people have no idea possess powers – has been quiet for decades . . . But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six...
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