- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2016
Two dead men. Forty suspects. The trial that broke a small South African town “Look what the fucking dogs did to them, someone muttered. No-one mentioned the rope, or the monkey-wrench, or the gun, or the knife, or the...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
A Guardian and Observer Fiction Highlight for 2022 and a Bookseller Editor’s Choice The new novel from the Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 **Available to pre-order now** Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941....
- Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): post WW2
Francine Howard has her life all mapped out until the soldier she planned to marry at WWII’s end writes to tell her he’s in love with a woman in England. Devastated, Francine seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House Any story that starts will also end.’ As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be....
- Location(s): Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret—even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1920s
The brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet set against the immersive backdrop of 1920s Shanghai. In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens . . . A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 17th Century
Rome, 1650. The streets are teeming as thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind the gilded façade of the Vatican, power is unravelling. Donna Olimpia Maidalchini has long kept Pope Innocent X under her thumb,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like you’ve never seen before–a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles,...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico with six other strangers. Surrounded by miles of open water...
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