- Location(s): London, Long Island, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
The narrative unfolds through three different points of view, Oscar, Christine and Marilyn, in locations on three continents: East Hampton, Shanghai and London. A Mind of Winter is a complex, page-turning, literary psychological thriller, which takes up a rich...
- Location(s): London, Melbourne, Prague, Rome
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Darius Ibrahim is not having a good week. He’s been threatened by a knife-wielding maniac on a London train, interrogated by a mysterious warrior woman beneath the city’s streets, pursued by a military death squad in Melbourne, had his...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Crime
A contemporary murder set in Bangkok-a neighbor and friend, a young ex-hooker turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaire’s minor wife. Her rich expat husband hires Calvino to investigate. While searching for the killer in exclusive clubs...
- Location(s): Damascus
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
Described by the author as simply ‘a work of love’, Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and...
- Location(s): Lake Michigan, Michigan
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
In the dead of winter a young man is found hanging from a tree on a remote shore of Lake Superior known as Misery Bay. There’s no evidence of foul play. Nothing to suggest it’s anything other than a...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Would you move 6,000 miles to be with the love of your life? Hannah did. Unfortunately her plan isn’t going terribly well. What was supposed to be a move to Hong Kong to start a wonderful new life with...
- Location(s): Albania, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In New York City, an Albanian interpreter cannot help but become entangled in her clients’ struggles, despite her husband’s cautions. When she reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions, his nightmares stir...
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of the Costa Prize shortlisted The Good Guy ‘Susan Beale’s writing is alive with subtlety and flair. Her stories unspool with a confident voice, a relish for detail and deft shifts in perspective’ Tessa Hadley “The...
- Location(s): Tow Law
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Emma Appleby’s arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals. And because she has a child with her, seemingly out of marriage, they want nothing to do with...
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
- Location(s): Copenhagen, Greenland
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
An exciting and intricate plot, at the centre Smilla Jasperson is a well drawn character. A complex plot, with a tremendous feeling of ice and snow.
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