- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Late 1500s onwards
Dodo Destiny examines the sad tale of the dodo and the intriguing history of its native Mauritius, a beautiful island nation home to one of today’s truly multicultural societies. The dodo is a universal symbol of extinction, yet little...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Set Queens. lfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose-sorry, Tariq-is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now...
- Location(s): The Mediterranean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Dog Islands are a small, isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean – so called because together, when viewed from above, they form the shape of a dog, twisting and baring its teeth against a brilliant blue sea....
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Early 2000s
It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the heat is rising… The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred.As tensions mount, Makana – who fled his home in Sudan...
- Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
- Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
- Era(s): Contemporary
Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...
- Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian...
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
- Location(s): Malawi, Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight is a wonderfully evocative memoir of Alexandra Fuller’s African childhood. Fuller regards herself “as a daughter of Africa”, who spent her early life on farms in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia throughout the...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The breathless thriller from Rachel Abbott. DON’T LOOK AWAY will have you up listening late into the night, unable to tear yourself from it. From the moment I open my eyes, I know. Her bed is made, the wardrobe...
- Location(s): Kalahari Desert, Okavango Delta
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison works as a top safari guide in the Okavango Delta, an oasis of wetland in...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In DOUBLE BLACK, Boston’s twenty-something Stacey Curtis ditches her cheating fiancé and heads for a Vermont ski town. She’s looking for the life she’s always dreamed about, but she stumbles instead into financial intrigue, bitter family warfare, and murder....
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