- Location(s): Athens
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 500BC - 450BC
Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Phuket
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Welcome to Phuket. It s a paradise, for the rich, the beautiful and the heavily armed. When Jack Shepherd runs into international racketeer and fugitive Plato Karsarkis in a Phuket beach bar one night, little can he imagine the...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing...
- Location(s): Salford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of a lonely and neglected boy, Paul, who is uprooted from one Salford housing estate to another by his mother. His Father has left and his Mother has suffered depression ever since. His great interest...
- Location(s): Havana, Miami
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
El Comandante, an aging Castro-like dictator shambles about his mansion in Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers in one of his prisons, and grapples with the stale end of his life that is as devoid of grandeur...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives that are anything but. When an 8-year-old girl goes missing from the estate on the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London’s Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away...
- Location(s): Jeddah
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah’s murder squad. But for the past year, he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though, she disappears. Terrified and with nowhere else...
- Location(s): The Bahamas, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
From the sugar-white sands of the Bahamas to Australia’s Coral Sea: Sunday Times bestseller Tasmina Perry travels the world and turns up the heat in her most spectacular novel yet… On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 and Modern
In 1940 in war-ravaged Birmingham, Meredith Wilson, driving an ARP ambulance, comes to rescue survivors of a bombed war munitions factory. There she meets two brothers, Bert and Bill Ennis, in Reserved Occupations running the factory, and falls in...
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