Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
This started as a blog – set in Old Compton Street it chronicles the people, the setting and the feel of Soho. A wonderful journey through the streets and backwaters of this part of London, poignant and funny.
- Location(s): Whitstable
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The Whitstable Pearl restaurant has been busy all summer while Pearl’s detective agency has brought few interesting cases – until a prospective client calls… Christina Scott confides that seven years ago she had the perfect life with a seaside...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Current
Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London looking for love and distraction. But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
Set in the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos in 1977, Cotterill’s engrossing third mystery (after 2005’s Thirty-three Teeth) takes series hero Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 73-year-old national coroner who has recently discovered his shaman ancestry, and Nurse Dtui, his...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
Disgrace takes as its complex central character 52-year-old English professor David Lurie whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry–and romancing his students–threatens to turn him into a “a moral dinosaur”. Called to account by the University for a passionate but brief...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000
Once a suburban husband and father, now the man has lost all sense of time. He retains only a few keepsakes of his former life: a handmade dining room table, an armoire and dresser from the bedroom, and a...
- Location(s): Shropshire, Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years,...
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Jamie and Izzy, friends for ever, have a dream: a spangly double wedding in Las Vegas. And, at twenty-seven, they decide they’ve had enough crap boyfriends and they’re ready for crap husbands – all they have to do is...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
It’s 2005. The Italian secret service has received news that a group of Muslim immigrants based in the Viale Marconi neighbourhood of Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover...
- Location(s): The Sudan
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Ariadne Tate takes a deployment to Sudan with a medical aid organisation, romance is the last thing on her mind…but Dr Ford Gosden puts a glitch in her plans. Too damn attractive for his own good and a...
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