- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweetheartswhose lives and families have been intertwined for years: theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel’s cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the...
- Location(s): Louisiana, New Orleans
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life – the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice’s compulsively readable...
- Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
A novel that will appeal broadly to international readers, Into Hell’s Fire is an espionage thriller set in war-torn Croatia and Bosnia. Daring, dangerous, and dramatic, the story pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction. Lucas Martin, a retired...
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
‘We’ve left a lot of men in Borneo – know what I mean?’ With their SAS trainer’s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O’Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found...
- Location(s): Wasdale Valley, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Thirty years ago, three school-friends took a walk in the woods. Only two came back – their memories a jumble of hallucinations and twisted visions. There is a chilling reason why nobody looked for the missing girl. Now, disgraced...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Bluesette “Blue” Stills, a magazine editor from Washington, DC, arrives at her sassy jazz singer friend Nareen Anderson’s apartment in Paris, France, ready to start her vacation. But shock and disappointment grip her when Nareen acts strange and suddenly...
- Location(s): Brighton, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70 and early 2000s
From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio de Janeiro, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Simultaneously familiar and foreign, this...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
A Grandmother sets about gathering her brood around her. The real charm is the combination of disparate character who attend. An absorbing read and beautifully brings Provence to life.
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