- 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...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After Astrid Strick – a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in upstate New York – witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her family. But are her kids,...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to present
In 1952, war widow Irene takes her young daughter to start a new life in New Zealand’s tobacco fields. But tragedy forces her into the arms of Jock, whose actions will haunt the lives of the couple’s future children–though...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Three first dates and an art-world mystery – it’s going to be a busy Christmas for Darcy. All I Want for Christmas is the Sunday Times bestselling cosy winter romance from Karen Swan, author of Christmas By Candlelight. Can...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older brother has been stabbed to death, his body left out in the road to rot. He was never involved. He was innocent. He didn’t even carry a gun. And...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Wing is an experienced, practical man who enforces the law in his corner of Vermont with a steady hand and a generous tolerance. But when local tearaway Sean ‘Superboy’ Duke starts to get tangled up with a group of...
- Location(s): Lewes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book loosely follows on from The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life. Belinda wistfully reflects how much better at sex she is now than when she was in her twenties. She’s thought about taking a lover, but ultimately could...
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