- Location(s): London, Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Two cities. Two spies. Which woman survives? Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. July, 1940 Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in...
- Location(s): Wales, Aberystwyth, Cheltenham, Cirencester
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): post-WWII
The echoes of war live long in the mind… Wales, 1947 Injured and terrified after an attempted abduction, desperation drives artist Kate Ward to the idyllic scene of her ex-husband’s recent suicide. Labelled a hysterical, grieving divorcée, no one...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
When you lose everything you love, you need a friend… Nothing ever happens in sleepy Grimbleton. Until two strangers – both claiming to be the fiancée of a dead soldier – arrive in town. Susan prides herself on her...
- Location(s): Waziristan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Warehouse is an original and contemporary novel set in Pakistan’s dreaded Waziristan, on the borders of Afghanistan a hotbed of crime, terrorism and harsh brutality. Cash, an insurance surveyor is sent out to Waziristan to find the recipient...
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews,...
- Location(s): Fincham
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Norfolk, 1940. In the dark days of the war, Emmeline’s nursery is the only thing giving mothers hope. But how long can she keep that hope alive? An inspiring and emotional story of love and strength in the darkest...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1999 / 2024
Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to change online dating forever. No-one expects it to end in tragedy. Twenty-five years later, Will gets an invitation:...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
- Location(s): London, Japan, Oxford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1880s
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel’s life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori...
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