- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. When the president’s assassination plummets the country into sudden and bloody...
- Location(s): Siglufjörður, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s and modern
1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes...
- Location(s): Beirut
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan’s parents have just been evacuated from the city with other members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Ivan stays on, interpreting for international medical volunteers in Sabra...
- Location(s): England, West Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1752-1765
Sacred Hunger races between gaudy mansions of the nouveau riche in the English countryside and the slave dealers abode in humid, hot West Africa. It concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of...
Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain
- Location(s): Castellon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
Jason Webster had lived in spain for 15 years whne he and his partner Salud, a flamenco dancer, choose to relocate from Valencia to the mountains. to an isolated and run down farmhouse. This is the first year of...
- Location(s): Canterbury, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1580s
Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and The Name of the Rose, the third historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy. In the pursuit of power, nothing is sacred… Summer, 1584. The Protestant Prince William of Orange...
- Location(s): Isle of Man
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Rob Hale wakes up in hospital after a motorcycle crash he is told that Lena, the woman he claims was travelling with him, doesn’t exist. The woman he describes bears a striking resemblance to his recently deceased sister,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
‘Saints of New York pulls no punches with a gritty and unsettling narrative that cements Ellory’s reputation as a rising star of crime fiction… uncompromising and utterly compelling.’ (WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY )
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus’s team from those...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out...
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