- 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...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Lachlan Doyle is a recently graduated Detective with the New Zealand CIB and is posted to Dunedin. A woman is found dead in her home, apparently having fallen down the stairs, but when Lachlan investigates further, he is convinced...
- Location(s): Bhutan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Long regarded as the Forbidden Land, Bhutan – or Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon – was virtually closed to the outside world until the 1960s. Even today, little is known about this remote Himalayan Buddhist kingdom...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Barbara Nadel brings us a new and original pair of detectives in poverty-stricken Stratford East, whose inhabitants are cynical about any possible improvements the Olympic Park can make to their wretched lives. Here another set of Londoners is impelled...
- Location(s): Lanzarote
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Newly single magazine journalist Chelsea Benson can’t think of anything worse. Your grubby small nephew torpedoing any chance of romance with the dishy guy you met on the plane . . . Your eighty-five-year-old granddad chatting up ladies at...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1979
Berlin, 1979. When the CIA’s most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Oswald T. Campbell, aged fifty-two, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is given only months to live unless he moves South… He finds himself in the small town of Lost River, Alabama, where the residents are friendly if feud-prone and...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
What happens when a bunch of murderous gringos are let loose on a third-world country? The country is Vietnam and the war has escalated into a technological bloodbath. Lyndon Johnson is in the White House and each night on...
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