- Location(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post 9/11
From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 – a story of war, of one family’s losses, and of the simplest, most enduring...
- Location(s): Isfahan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl’s journey from innocence to adulthood. A village girl’s dreams of marriage end on the death of her father. Cast on the...
- Location(s): The Faroe Islands
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2
Having left the Faroes as a child, Jan Reyna is now a British police detective, and the islands are foreign to him. But he is drawn back when his estranged father is found unconscious with a shotgun by his...
- Location(s): Odesa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s
The hero, Captain Alexei Korolev, a detective in Moscow’s criminal investigation squad in the 1930s, dissatisfied and morose, manages to cling to his job and his life while all around him are losing theirs. He’s ordered to the port...
- Location(s): The Scottish Borders, West of Scotland
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a small bone at the centre of a famous sculpture is revealed to be human, three people become intimately connected by the secrets and lies that put it there. Set on a Scottish tidal island connected to the...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Working Mother of 2 children crime reporter Annika Bengtzon is woken by a phonecall in the early hours of a wintry December morning. An explosion has ripped apart the Olympic Stadium. And a victim has been blown to pieces....
- Location(s): Bardsey Island
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Tom Thorne is back in charge – but there’s a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried twenty-five years before....
The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Short Stories
A slighted wife escapes her family in a wealthy neighbourhood for the night and stumbles into the city’s red-light district… The head of security at Barcelona’s container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak into...
- Location(s): San Diego, The Salton Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Hye-yang is a dutiful daughter in a Korean village where the women are ocean divers. But prostitution awaits her until an American takes her over to live in the States. Here she becomes Helen, and has a daughter –...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Cli-fi
- Era(s): Contemporary
AMONG THE ASHES, THEY FOUND HOPE . . . In a tiny, beautiful Greek village, deep in an ancient forest, live a family – Irini, Tasso and their daughter, sweet Chara. One day their world is rocked when a...
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