A Christmas Miracle For The Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #6)
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1942-1943
Manchester, 1942. There are surprises in store for the railway girls this festive season… When Cordelia’s daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn’t meet the approval of her father, Cordelia is reminded of her own first love...
- Location(s): Stockholm, Eastern Europe, New York City (NYC), Oxford, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A noted climate activist is about to name names at a symposium in Stockholm. CIA agents Joshua Daine and Valerie Rhodes are sent on a simple retrieval mission to pick up classified information. She is kidnapped, he is shot,...
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 115AD
The year is 115 AD and Imperial Rome is at the height of its power. The reader wakes in a rich patrician home and discovers frescoes, opulent furnishings and richly appointed boudoirs. Strolling through the splendours of the Roman...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Faced with the violent death of his own father, even Assistant Superintendent David ‘Kubu’ Bengu, Botswana’s keenest mind, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? Set amidst the dark beauty of modern Botswana, A Death in...
- Location(s): Swiss Alps
- Genre(s): Gothic, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming haven stifled by the Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the...
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
- Location(s): Nagasaki, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living...
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
- Location(s): Cambodia, Indochina, Laos
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
This book is set in French Indo-China as the Viet Minh are embarking on the guerrilla war against their colonial oppressors. Lewis travels around the area and recounts his experiences in a tender, insighful and well written way.
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Every morning in Sadar Bazaar, one of the oldest markets in Delhi, a gang of men gather looking for work in the building trade. For five years, Aman Sethi shared their lives, and in particular that of Mohammed Ashraf....
A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Thelma and Louise Meets Goodfellas… After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes an unwanted move on her, she retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving...