- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. Aged 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): World War Two
June 1940: Berlin is being bombed. Clara Vine is an Anglo-German woman in a country that hates England. The Propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, decides that Clara should adopt a new role as his spy, and so Clara must go...
- Location(s): Washington DC, West Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1969
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided...
- Location(s): The Solomon Islands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century
Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson – who spent several years in the South Pacific – here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall,...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Somebody’s Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes more and more intrigued...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 2000s
From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead?and keep it together?in New York City. It’s January 1995, and...
- Location(s): Long Island, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
They’d left their daughter with us, their only child, and we hadn’t protected her. That was all they would see when they looked at us—that we had failed them. I count down the days until we can leave the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars ‘A delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women...
- Location(s): Lahore, London, Multan
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Multan, Pakistan. A conservative city where an unmarried woman over the age of twenty-five is considered a curse by her family. Ayesha is twenty-seven. Independent and happily single, she has evaded an arranged marriage because of her family’s reduced...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are no obvious suspects, she was not an obvious victim. She just wasn’t, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the...
Please wait...
