- Location(s): The Gambia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
For an intelligent, ambitious girl growing up in a Gambian village, life holds few tempting prospects. Marriage and motherhood, often forced, are the paths assigned to most. Nyima, too, is subject to this fate, as well as having to...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A lost civilisation. A curse reborn. Dr Ben Kazin has only a blurred photograph and a gut instinct that there is a lost city to uncover somewhere beneath the Botswana cliffs. Soon, a whispered curse and a chance encounter...
- Location(s): Ann Arbor
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Amos Walker is hired by Helen and Dante Gunner, a bohemian Ann Arbor couple, to find Jerry Marcus, a film director who has disappeared with their investment money. It’s one of Walker’s easiest jobs to date. In just a...
- Location(s): Mali
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various
After the leader of a great African kingdom hears that a baby has been born who will destroy him, he hides behind a mighty army and surrounds himself with magical charms. There remains only one way to kill him....
- Location(s): County Fermanagh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Annie, Francie and Archie were inseparable growing up, but in 1914 the boys are seduced by the drama of the Great War. Before leaving their small Irish village for the...
- Location(s): New York State, Batavia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1972
An absolutely wild novel set in the tiny upstate town of Batavia (where author John Gardner spent his life), The Sunlight Dialogues consists of the community’s reaction to the mysterious “Sunlight Man,” who is charged with having graffitied the...
- Location(s): New Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2009/10
Meet the members of the Sunset Club: Pandit Preetam Sharma; Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh. Friends for over forty years; they are now in their eighties. And every evening; at the sunset hour; they sit together on...
The Sunshine and Biscotti Club
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The ovens are pre-heating, the Prosecco is chilling…and The Sunshine and Biscotti Club is nearly ready to open its doors. But the guests have other things on their minds… Libby: The Blogger Life is Instagram-perfect for food blogger Libby…until...
- Location(s): Rhodes
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sit back, relax and enjoy a getaway to idyllic Rhodes … Sara is marrying Robert soon, but instead of a traditional hen night or bachelorette party, she decides to invite her friends to her fiancé’s luxurious villa on the...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In January 1989, Birdie wakes to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. Birdie sends her kids to school and then leaves for London...
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