- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
It’s 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs. An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious,...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘The white dolphin is a sign that Mum’s out there . . .’ When they first meet, Kara and Felix can’t stand each other. But on discovering an injured dolphin calf on the beach they know they must work...
- Location(s): Yukon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s
‘Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on…‘ Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, ‘White Fang’ tells the story of a young wolf-dog’s journey...
- Location(s): Arizona
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
A dangerous cult has recently taken over the desert ghost town of Paradise, Arizona. Members worship at the feet—and in the bed—of its charismatic leader, Ethan Wycliff, and obey his orders blindly. They’ve already tried to murder one woman...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Kenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda but the servants can’t be trusted. Beyond manicured lawns, in the dark of the forest, freedom is stirring. Johnny Seymour has seen too much war and...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok – Hick to friends – a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic,...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ivy Lin was a thief. But you’d never know it to look at her… Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant growing up in a low-income apartment complex outside Boston, is desperate to assimilate with her American peers. Her parents disapprove,...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 90s-present day
Northern Ireland, Good Friday, 1998. The Belfast Peace Agreement is signed, the Troubles are officially over. This should be the start of a new life for nine year-old Cian Duffy. But growing up in peace-torn Belfast is not easy...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present
The third in the D.I. Dylan series, set in Yorkshire and written by the husband and wife team who are the storyline consultants to TV’s Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey. Work continues to dictate Dylan’s life and a...
- Location(s): Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Peace Corps volunteer Michael Killigan goes missing in West Africa, his father Randall and his best friend Boone Westfall begin separate quests to find him. Randall, a bankruptcy lawyer, is the warlord of his world, a shark in...
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