- Location(s): England, Rwanda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If...
- Location(s): Argyll and Bute, Glasgow
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
You need to know who your husband really was… When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost thirty years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son, Christopher’s death, her world falls apart. Grieving and bereft, she is...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
After the Rains is an adventurous, dramatic coming of age novel set in post-colonial Rhodesia that parallels the coming of age of fictional Jayne Cameron with that of post-colonial Rhodesia as it morphs into the free Zimbabwe. This is...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Various
Meet four generations of the Duvalier family, for whom sugar cane is both their blessing and their curse. From patriarch Carter, who perishes before the novel begins after being hit in the head by an exploding manhole cover, and...
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Revenge is a dish best served warm…High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She’s off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. To make friends, she enters the local quiche-making competition...
- Location(s): New Delhi
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, three a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five...
- Location(s): London, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller, Time Slip
San Francisco, 2017. Clinton’s in the White House, Brexit never happened – and Verity Jane’s got herself a new job. They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer,’ and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Russia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Agent 6, the third and final outing for the conflicted former MGB officer, brings the trilogy of novels to a resounding climax. Leo’s new civilian life with his wife Raisa and his family has acquired equilibrium, but the USSR...
- Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Hoagland inserts historical facts about the towns and cities he visited, and he provides plenty of appealing natural descriptions of a wondrous landscape. A pleasing combination of personal essays and reflections, a love story and a naturalist’s view of...










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