- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), China
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
LOOKING FOR A NEW EXPERIENCE? TRY MURDER … Bored of the ‘mango smoothie’ trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and maybe their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China’s jungle borderland with Burma....
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When the gods made man, they made a weapon… After uncovering a fresh wave of corruption within the ranks of Northumbria CID, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan was looking forward to an uneventful summer. But, when a young woman is...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul’s streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
An anthology of stories under the editorship of Dennis Lehane, set in Boston. Some noir, some mystery ….lots of locations are mentioned….
- Location(s): Southern England, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1st Century CE
Boudicca. Infamous warrior, queen of the British Iceni tribe and mastermind of one of history’s greatest revolts. Her defeat spelled ruin for her people, yet still her name is enough to strike fear into Roman hearts. But what of...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood‘s young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in...
- Location(s): East Lothian, North Berwick
- Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
Tom and Beth are not happy when they move to North Berwick and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that’s falling to pieces and a school full of strangers. When they meet Professor Macblain, with his...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A toxic family … a fight for survival… Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Emilia has it all: a rewarding career as a statistician, a wonderful husband, and two healthy young sons. Having escaped Amsterdam for a life in the countryside, she and Bruch pass their time performing endless jobs around the house....
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