- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a dead-beat coastal town in North East Scotland, seventeen-year-old Malky Campbell is desperate to help his pregnant and heroin addicted girlfriend. DI Stark, a middle-aged detective, alarmed by the rise of teenage crime in Port Cawdor, uncovers the...
The sound of the buffalo bells: Stories from Laos
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Amongst temples and banks, rice fields and jungles the reader meets forest-eaters and world-travelling buffaloes, a frog who wants to swallow the moon, a man who sells luck and another who sells air, and a young boy who wants...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji...
- Location(s): Essex, London
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s / 2000s
One last chance to reveal the truth… 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950
This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach...
- Location(s): Barcelona, Madrid
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1890s - 1940s
A rich novel of music, politics and life, seen throught the eyes of Feliu
- Location(s): Madrid, Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Spanish Civil War
Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the...
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
“An atmospheric and captivating mystery set against the backdrop of 1920s Ecuador, The Spanish Daughter is an engrossing, suspenseful family saga filled with unpredictable twists and turns.”–Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana. As...
- Location(s): Argentina, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century / contemporary
Argentina, 1939: “My darling Valentina, I beg you to not go through with this marriage. I know your duty to your family means the world to you, but I pray our love means more. Let us run away together,...
- Location(s): Spain, Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One of Spain’s richest men is dying. But as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is making plans to give away his wealth to a young woman they have never even heard of. Who...
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