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What She Knew

What She Knew
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Nine years ago, Stephanie’s flatmate Alison vanished, presumed murdered. When a true crime series wants to interview her, Stephanie is forced to acknowledge her need to answer one burning question – what happened to Alison? But someone doesn’t want...

What She Saw

What She Saw
  • Author(s): Wendy Clarke
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leona lives a quiet life in the Lake District but haunted by images of Ria, finds the past is catching up with her. Meanwhile, her daughter, Beth, is fighting her own demons. When she learns the devastating truth, her...

What She Saw Last Night

What She Saw Last Night
  • Author(s): Mason Cross
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jenny Bowen is going home. Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper, all she wants to do is forget about her upcoming divorce and relax on the ten-hour journey through the night. In her search for her cabin, Jenny helps a panicked...

What Still Burns

What Still Burns
  • Author(s): Elle Grawl
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alexis “Lex” Blake swore she would never return to the town where she’d lost her home and her family in a devastating fire that only she survived and can barely remember. But when her aunt dies, leaving behind a...

What Strange Paradise

What Strange Paradise
  • Author(s): Omar El Akkad
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable...

What the Body Remembers

What the Body Remembers
  • Author(s): Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1947

Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died...

What the Body Remembers

What the Body Remembers
  • Author(s): Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died...

What the Clocks Know

What the Clocks Know
  • Author(s): Rumer Haven
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern / Victorian

Twenty-six-year-old Margot sets out on a journey of self-discovery – she dumps her New York boyfriend, quits her Chicago job, and crashes at her friend’s flat in London. Rather than find herself, though, she only feels more lost. An...

What the Focaccia

What the Focaccia
  • Author(s): Ginger Jones
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

scape to Italy with the brand-new romcom from the author of You Had Me at Halloumi When Ramona’s dream to launch a size-inclusive fashion line comes crashing down she decides it is time for a bold change. Realising there...

What the Nights Tells the Day

What the Nights Tells the Day
  • Author(s): Hector Bianciotti
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homeland of France. What the Night Tells the Day, his first novel to be translated into English,...

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