- Location(s): Dubai, Kyiv, Sussex
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Former SAS trooper Aidan Snow returns in the thrilling follow up to the Kindle bestseller ‘Hetman’. Now an MI6 operative, Snow must locate & rescue an old SAS colleague before an Al-Qaeda cell can carry out acts of unprecedented...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 2000s
Following her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases – the first in tracking down an escaped convict who’s keen to settle old scores, and the other, the murder of a TV fitness...
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
It’s DS Logan McRae’s first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn’t get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid’s body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead....
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where you just might catch a King Salmon if you’re zen enough to wait for it. Clive ‘The Milkman’ McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a seven-year jail stint...
- Location(s): Bordeaux
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1940-45
The war is turning against Germany on the Eastern Front. The Americans land in North Africa. Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Superintendent Lannes – himself an object of suspicion, with one son in Vichy and another with de Gaulle’s Free French...
Come on Shore and We Will Kill You and Eat You All
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1640s onwards
Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman’s discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author’s unlikely romance...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
The publication of Clarice Lispector’s Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual...
Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness
- Location(s): Connemara
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The first volume of Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson’s home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a...
- Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of invasion and England is now free to seek conquests and colonies in the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a...
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