- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
A young Australian working girl from London struggles to adapt to diplomatic life among the royal courtiers of Swaziland, in post-independence Zimbabwe and in Angola amid the gunfire of the civil war. She accompanies her husband, the striding KJ,...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy, where she has recently been grieving for her dead father, her husband discovers that her life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The epic journey, 35,000 miles from Siberia to London on a bike. Beautifully and thoughtfully written.
Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
The year is 1968. The liberal reforms of Czechoslovakia’s new leader, Alexander Dubcek, have outraged the Kremlin and now, 250,000 Warsaw Pact forces are amassed on the borders. For American intelligence, the situation is worsened when their prime source,...
- Location(s): The West End
- Genre(s): Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Historical
- Era(s): 1935
1935. Dora’son the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage. But unluckily for her, Dora’s fiance is more persistent than most and follows. As...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Friday evening. A deserted street below Table Mountain. A six-year-old ballerina waits alone for her mother to fetch her. Then an unmarked car approaches, and she is gone. With no trace of where, or why she’s been abducted, suspicion...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women’s eventful lives...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Daisy Darker’s family were as dark as dark can be, when one of them died all of them lied and pretended not to see . . . Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her eightieth birthday....
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes, the true story is the hardest to believe. TONY has always looked out for his younger brother, Nick. So when Nick is badly hurt and it looks like he was the victim of sexual assault, Tony’s anger flares....
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
(East and West: Looking Both Ways) A tragicomic satire from the heart of East Germany Gabriela grows up in the East German town of Leibnitz. Her father is a famous surgeon, her mother a respected society hostess. The girl,...
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