- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer’s much-loved detective Benny Griessel. Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas. Niki Jumpei, an...
- Location(s): Japan, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to present day
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage secures her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community. However, Naoko has fallen for an American sailor and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern looking back
It’s been ten months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna’s lifeline to the...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
Rome under Mussolini is the setting for this, probably Moravia’s best known novel: Adriana, a simple and poor girl who models naked for an artist and gradually moves into a more shadowy world.Giacomo, a failed revolutionary cannot admit his...
- Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
A stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O’Flanagan Dublin. The 1920s. As war tears Ireland apart, two young people are caught up in events that will bring love, tragedy – and the hardest of choices. In a...
The Woman on the Orient Express
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. Agatha isn’t...
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 21st century
“I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
What is making Helen Graham so jumpy and evasive? Newly arrived in a tiny Yorkshire village, she finds the locals’ curiosity her worst nightmare. Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it...
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