- Location(s): The American West
- Genre(s): Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1947
“Train to Pakistan” is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Set in 1920s Gasoline Point, Alabama, a fictitious town based on author Albert Murray’s hometown of Magazine Point, Train Whistle Guitar is a coming of age story of Scooter, a young black boy who with his friend Little Buddy,...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern Day
Ben, an engineer, was sitting in Our Bar when he heard the horrific news of the train crash. He runs out of the bar, with his best friend Mark following him, and learns that his girlfriend, Christy is permanently...
- Location(s): Edinburgh, England, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Imagine you’re on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences you’ve all had. But there is one more thing that you undoubtedly...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 1500s
England, 1598. Queen Elizabeth’s successor remains unnamed. The country teeters on a knife edge. When a young heiress is found murdered at the theatre, the Queen’s spymaster Robert Cecil calls upon former agent Sophia de Wolfe to investigate. A...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of...
- Location(s): US Virgin Islands
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s - 1917
Transfer traces the lives of those on Anna’s Fancy, the Clausen estate on St Croix, handed down through three generations. Transfer sees Niels Clausen, the illegitimate child of a Danish landowner and his black mistress who both died as...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller, Political
- Era(s): Modern
On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the...
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