- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 2025
What would you do if your elderly parents vanished without a trace? Would you assume they’d simply wandered off? Or would you start to suspect something far more sinister? When retired couple Violet and Lawrence Braithwaite disappear from their...
- Location(s): Trondheim, Richmond (VA)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A daring novel that explores the taboos surrounding male-female relationships in Saudi Arabia’s deeply conservative society, Where Pigeons Don’t Fly scrutinises the public tyranny of the so-called ‘Committee for Virtue’, which monitors young unmarried couples in Riyadh. Focusing on...
Where Seagulls Dare and other tales from Herm Island
- Location(s): Guernsey, Herm
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Mostly the present, with one set in WW2
The tiny Channel Island of Herm measures one and a half miles long by half a mile wide. This book comprises twelve short stories drawing on the island’s history, myths and legends – each evocative of an island location....
- Location(s): Mumbles
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to the strange new world of Melanie Black. She used to report on murder cases – but now she finds herself the victim of one TV journalist Melanie Black wakes up one morning next to a man she...
Where Soldiers Fear to Tread: A Relief Worker’s Tale of Survival
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1997 to 1998
“There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy’s first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver’s...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
An epic family saga that charts three generations of an Indian family in Uganda In 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 80,000 South Asians from Uganda. Though many had lived in East Africa for generations, they were forced to flee...
- Location(s): Seychelles
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
Part sentimental journey revisiting old well-loved scenes of former travels, and part search for new, out-of-the-way lands, Alec Waugh’s travel book tells of a journey half-way round the world. But in new or old places, the author’s sense of...
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
- Location(s): Illinois
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller. In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
- Era(s): Conteporary
Perfect lives. Perfect lies. The brand new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada Peyton Marcus is the woman New York wakes up to, anchor of the most-watched morning show in the city. With a...
Please wait...
