- 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...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern day
Transman spy Charley MacElroy travels to Paris to help French authorities break up a Neo Nazi plot to scatter dirty bombs throughout the city. His older lover Electra comes along to study French, but she soon discovers Dickie Borque,...
- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In his many years as a Commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native Venice to discover the person responsible. Now, in the thirtieth novel in...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions–personal, moral, artistic, and practical–as she endeavors to construct a...
Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
The Pacific Ocean calls to mind a world of fabulous kingdoms and noble savages, guilt free sex and gin-clear lagoons, and a perfect idleness fed by lush fruits and fish-rich seas. Ever since Captain Cook first went to Tahiti...
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