- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam’s old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim’s mouth. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, and a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in Père-Lachaise cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close relationship with...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man’s missing birthday in Diana Rosie’s debut novel, Alberto’s Lost Birthday. Alberto is an old man. But he doesn’t know how old – he remembers nothing...
All Creatures Great and Small: “If Only They Could Talk” and “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet”
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1930s
This is the rural landscape of North Yorkshire. The life of a vet in the 1930s, beautifully written and a classic of its time.
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
London, 1756: In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in the back streets of London, to conjuror’s assistant, to celebrated courtesan...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1890s
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY. The winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014, this is a gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris – Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland and The Ghost. Paris, 1895: an army officer,...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Post 1947
In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2
In June 1940, Paris fell to the Nazis who made the world’s cultural capital their favourite entertainment ground. Music halls and cabarets thrived during the occupation, providing plenty of work for actors, singers and musicians – except for Jews....
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
September 1960. In the Spandauer forest Detectives Max Becker and Bastian Döhl, from the Berlin Kriminalpolizei, find a naked, tortured man tied to a tree. A cryptic message hangs from his neck. When another body appears, Max is sure...
