Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Location(s): Savannah
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
Part travelogue, part true-crime thriller – with copious supernatural elements also thrown into the mix – the book defies simple description. Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands’ suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1990s, 1995
New Orleans Fang Fest, 1995. Mina’s having a summer to die for. 17-year-old Mina, from England, arrives in New Orleans to visit her estranged sister, Libby. After growing up in the town that inspired Dracula, Mina loves nothing more...
Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Grand Life Apartments is a middle-class apartment block surrounded by lush gardens in the coastal city of Chennai, India. It is the home of Kamala, a pious, soon-to-be retired dentist who spends her days counting down to the annual...
- Location(s): Africa, Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Mood of Future Joys follows Alastair on the first leg of his epic journey around the world, starting in Yorkshire, then going down through Europe and travelling the whole length of Africa, including Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya. The book...
- Location(s): London, Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
ENGLAND, 1930. Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London’s Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses her true purpose. But Rachel Savernake is not one of the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A large, though never sprawling, novel Mother London follows three mental-hospital outpatients Mary Gasalee, David Mummery and Josef Kiss and their friends, in an episodic, non-linear history of the capital from the Blitz to present day. Most noteworthy is...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ‘A brilliant book…that explores the brutal legacy of addiction and the consequences of a deep grief left to stagnate’ SARA COX ‘A work of gilded melancholy that is going to take everyone by...
- Location(s): Launceston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura’s husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
From the creator of the much-loved Mr Chicken Goes to Paris comes another madcap adventure this time it s London and Mr Chicken wants to see all of it! Mr Chicken lands in London, checks in at the Savoy...
Murder At Primrose Cottage (Flora Steele #3)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1956
Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective – in her quest to solve a brand-new murder mystery! Cornwall, 1956: When Flora Steele sets off for a peaceful vacation with crime writer Jack Carrington in his...
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