- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Why is the ghost of a distressed woman running through a corridor in the Paris metro? Kay, a translator, finds herself being drawn into a puzzling web involving two gifted musicians, a maker of beautiful jewellery and a morose...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
A PARROT IN A PEPPER TREE, the sequel to Lemons, follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloë, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their home, Spanish school life, neighbours in love,...
- Location(s): England, London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 1800s
When Mr Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard is immediately summoned. Little is known about the elusive gentleman until Mr Jonathan Tapley, QC, hears of the...
- Location(s): Patna (Bankipur)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Said to be based on Bankipur, a suburb of Patna. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced ‘Anglo-Indian’ community. Determined to...
- Location(s): Kiribati
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Early 20th century
A Pattern of Islands is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Nestled between the luxury high-rise blocks of Bangalore is an ironically named slum called Heaven. It’s here that five girls – Muslim, Christian and Hindu; gay and straight – forge a binding friendship. But when Heaven is threatened by...
- Location(s): Chofu, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in...
- Location(s): Trieste, Gloucestershire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
During a visit to Trieste in Northern Italy to research his long lost great-grandfather, Jacob meets Charlotte and Jane, and the three are forced to confront their individual and shared histories. Their sense of themselves is challenged and they...
- Location(s): Haridwar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged. When they first...
- Location(s): London, Saskatchewan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
A shy but privileged elder son, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence – until the shock of discovery and...
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