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...
- Location(s): Nairobi, Africa, Kenya, Scottish Highlands
- Era(s): N/A
Lauren St John’s stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Thriller
A teenage suicide. A murdered pharmacist. A missing girl. Is the obvious connection the right one? When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
First published in 1964, The Snow Ball is arguably Brigid Brophy’s most brilliant fictional performance, consummately melding her avid interests in opera, sexuality and psychology. It is New Year’s Eve in London. The occasion is a costume ball on...
- Location(s): Exmoor
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
When passion becomes obsession, anything can happen… Chic, intelligent, highly motivated and unexpectedly unemployed. AND soon to be forty. Not a situation Katie Tremain finds easy to cope with, especially as it gives her time to notice that she...
- Location(s): Essex
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1940
Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon, a hauntingly beautiful child, Fritha, visits Rhayader, bringing with her an injured snow goose. At first Fritha is scared of Rhayader, with...
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