- Location(s): West London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When you’ve got a house to die for Be careful who you let in . . . Colette spends a lot of her time at Addison Square, one of the most desirable addresses in West London. She knows the...
- Location(s): Bruges
- Location(s): Bath, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
‘My father had spelt it out to me. Choice was a luxury I couldn’t afford. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well . . .’ A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern, near future
Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. ‘THE STAND is a masterpiece’ (Guardian). Set...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1927
“This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance….15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West...
- Location(s): Algiers
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Ceylon, 1906: Stella Polegate steps off the ship in Colombo harbour, her heart beating with contradictory emotions. As her father’s unofficial research assistant, she’s thrilled to explore this island of ancient temples and verdant tea plantations—yet painfully aware that...
- Location(s): Austria
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1896
In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants’ quarters of a house belonging to three...
- Location(s): Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): Early 1990s
A missing diamond. A civil war mystery. Can a courageous geologist use her skills to unravel the truth? Nursing a broken heart, geologist Sam Harris goes to Simbako in West Africa to work in the diamond fields of Fona....
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1989
This lyrical novel of community, betrayal and love centres on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from their US home in Brooklyn and sent to Bird Hill in Barbados after their...
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