This book comes in three tranches – Robb’s person experience in Brazil which is certainly a rollercoaster experience at times but also explore culture, food and language. The second is the history of Brazil from it’s Portugues colonisation (and...

Max Camara is feeling low. Ominous cracks have appeared in the walls of his flat: the body of a well-known paella chef has been washed up on the beach: there are rows and threats about abortion clinics: the town...

Gabriel Allon has avoided Vienna since he lost both his wife and child in a terrorist bombing. His Israeli mentor, however, requests that he returns in order to investigate a lethal explosion in Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office. His...

The body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale. Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man? Penny Cartwright, a beautiful folk singer with...

~ London 1609 ~Elspet Leviston’s greatest ambition is to continue the success of her father Nathaniel’s lace business. But her dreams are thrown into turmoil with the arrival of her mysterious cousin Zachary Deane – who has his own...

This is the fourth and final book in the Raj Quartet. Once again, the cast of interesting characters is huge: the atmosphere of the time is brilliantly captured and the variety of scenes/plots is well mastered. The book is...

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston’s Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple...

Ben du Toit teaches history and geography in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the period of the height of the youth riots in the township of Soweto. He is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way –...

She’ll do whatever it takes to keep this family together… As the nanny to four quirky but loveable children, Charlie French has learnt that if there was ever a cement shortage Weetabix would be a viable substitute and that...

The Rock Star It is twenty years since rock musician Zach Anderson mysteriously plunged to his death in a lake. When media interest in the incident is suddenly re-ignited, hidden tensions fracture the glamorous facade of the Morgan family,...