- 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...
- Location(s): Siberia, Poland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
An unforgettable love story set in Siberia during the Second World War and of living with impossible choices. Lena knows she hasn’t got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing...
- Location(s): India, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Old and young. White and brown. Male and female. British. Indian. Other. Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain ― but will they see the same thing from the...
- Location(s): Transylvania, Romania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fairy Tales
- Era(s): N/A
Women imprisoned by superstition, chained by guilt. Perched on a mountain in a land of ancient forests is a village, rife with secrets. Cut off from the outside world it is run by the elders, men to whom tradition...
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a little boy is found with his neck broken, Lhasa detective Shan Lia leaves her broken past behind and throws herself into the investigation. He is the fifth child to die the same way in as many weeks....
- Location(s): Snowdonia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales....
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): late 20th century
One winter’s night, a snowman comes to life and an unforgettable adventure begins. Raymond Briggs’ classic is a true piece of Christmas magic – narrated entirely through pictures, it captures the wonder and innocence of childhood and is recognised...
- Location(s): Zanzibar, Cape Town, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Ex Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early...
- Location(s): Tanzania, World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 20th century
Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm...
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