- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality, secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home. Jean Lux, constrained academic wife and guilty mother, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source. Meanwhile Eve,...
- Location(s): Egypt, North Africa
- Era(s): 1st Century BC
Daughters of the Nile is the final volume in Dray’s trilogy about Cleopatra’s daughter, Cleopatra Selene.
- Location(s): Ibadan, Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Morayo moves from an idyllic childhood to a harrowing adolescence marked by a shameful secret. She lives in the bosom of a typical family. But troubled cousein, Bros T, moves in and shatters the family dynamic. Each chapter starts...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Early 1500s
Michelangelo’s statue of David is renowned all over the world. Thousands flock to Florence to admire the artistry behind this Renaissance masterpiece, and to admire the beauty of the human form captured in the marble. But the identity of...
- Location(s): Jimbocho
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fairy Tales, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Soon you will become the thing all other beasts fear. Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure’s daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back – but...
- Location(s): Beirut, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn Beirut. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must choose their futures: to remain in the exhausted, corrupt city of their birth,...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It’s a time of peace and goodwill – until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1936 and WW2
No. 9 in the Spoils of War series A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley. 1936. Anglo-Breton translator...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
‘Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else’s perfume, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now,...
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