- Location(s): Isle of Man
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): Modern
When Claire Cooper was eight, her mother disappeared during Hop-tu-naa, the Manx Halloween. When Claire was eighteen, she and her friends took part in a Hop-tu-naa dare that went terribly wrong. Now in her early twenties and a police...
- Location(s): Glencoe
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Late 17th Century and contemporary
DARKER ENDS is the third title by Alex Nye, again inspired by the landscape and history of Scotland. This time Glencoe is the background setting, and the ghosts of the recent past mingle with the dark events of 1692,...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Julie Nowak has been missing since 7th September 2003. It broke her family. Only her father, Theo, doesn’t give up on her. On the 20th anniversary of her disappearance, Theo is contacted by podcaster Liv. She’s come across a...
- Location(s): Catalonia (France)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
1935. Luis, a charismatic Spaniard, elopes with Elise and they move to a small village in Catalonia. But little do they know that war will soon rip them apart. Some twenty years later, stifled by her life in England,...
- Location(s): California, Chile
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Various
The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. ‘He never says please’, she sighed, but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called, she always came. In general,...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Era(s): Modern
Readers of Princess Sultana’s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here,...
- 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...
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