- Location(s): Desolation Wilderness
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot....
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
Eilidh Lawson’s life is in crisis. Years of failed fertility treatments, a cheating husband and an oppressive family have pushed her to the limits. At the end of her tether, she runs away to the one place she thinks...
- Location(s): Northern California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): Modern
Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that’s why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn’t known about...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Morocco, 1968. The air is electric. Anything feels possible, and Mathilde is determined to celebrate it. Doesn’t she have the right to enjoy life, after dedicating her best years to the war and then to this farm? Looking out...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Amid the depths of a bleak Boston winter, a recently married couple find their lives and their relationship unraveling after a series of deadly accidents, in this brilliantly twisting domestic thriller perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham, Greer Hendricks,...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This story is based on true events that happened to a family member of Sara Alexi in the year 2000. Set in the Aegean sea, under the Mediterranean sun, Watching the Wind Blow is a tale of a girl...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
In the lower depths of a massive submarine, ship’s zoologist Nerissa Crane takes an ultrasound of a heavily pregnant Asian elephant. The elephant conceived off-ship but, it transpires, was forced on board – along with Nerissa and a hastily...
- Location(s): Makoko
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
She’s the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster. In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
For a young boy growing up in the hills of Central Vietnam, the days were full of adventure and excitement. Nhuong’s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. Tank was extraordinary. He was fierce and fought off tigers and...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 1990s
THE DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN GALVANISES HER FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD INTO A FRENZY OF QUESTIONS AND UNLIKELY DISCOVERIES. At the cusp of the millennium, in a fast-changing neighbourhood in Bangalore, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi form a...
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