Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): Early and late 20th Century
One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1929
John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store. Two fierce Amazon Pirates,...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen’s dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
HACKNEY and the wider area: A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate – but two people confess to the murder.Ndekwe, an ambitious, newly promoted Detective Sergeant within a subtly racist police force, believes the more...
- Location(s): Berlin, France, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s-1950s
Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sisters Lexie and Amber used to share everything, including their dream of getting out of their small town. Born only ten months apart, they once thought they couldn’t be closer. They were wrong. Fifteen years ago, Amber was brutally...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Tara Sweet is a sensible young woman whose life is turned upside when her mother marries a younger man, and Tara’s boyfriend ends their relationship. Finding herself at Otter Bay, on the Californian coast she falls for a young...
- Location(s): Harar, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onward
In Thatcher’s London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onward
After his mother’s death, Thomas finds a few clues about his mother’s time as a `military wife’ in 1950’s Cyprus and investigates, making certain assumptions based on his vague childhood memories
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