- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A haunting tale of love, loss and finding one’s place in the world Widowed artist Annabel returns to Guernsey seeking a fresh start for herself and her young daughter away from her late husband’s controlling family. Seagull Cottage appears...
- Location(s): Oxfordshire
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1970s
Set in present-day Oxfordshire, this novel features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist. Soon the boy makes acquaintance with the eponymous Thomas Kempe, ghost of a...
- Location(s): Cairo, Siwa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Early 2000s
The protagonist is Sudanese, living in Cairo and the subtle aspects of life in that part of the world are effortlessly conveyed by the author. It is Cairo, 2002. Makana and Sindbad are instructed by Magdy Ragab to follow her lawyer...
- Location(s): Florida Keys
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern, 20th century
Nightclub singer Olivia si found murdered, and her sister and the club owner find themselves up to their necks in this tale of revenge. Olivia’s grandfather died in a similar manner decades earlier. Coincidence?
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Before WW2 onwards
This is the story of Philip Hutton, as he grapples with his guilt and pain and the choices he had to make when the Japanese attacks Malaya and his home of Penang
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1660s
Winter, 1661. In her short life Sadie Appleby has never left rural Westmorland. But one night she is rudely awoken by her older and bolder sister, Ella. She has robbed her employer and is on the run. Together the...
- Location(s): Salò, Pellestrina
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
A World War II love story set against the romance and danger of occupied Venice. Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war. He’s happy to stay out of the way of the...
- Location(s): Greece, Ithaka (Ithaca)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): c. 1000BC
A Spartan war ship sails into Ithaca and two men arrive to demand the fulfillment of an oath. When Odysseus joins the Greek alliance against Troy, his little sister, fourteen-year-old Neomene, is thrust into a world she knows little...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): WW2
Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century. What if everything you believed about your life was a lie? Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke, struggling to finish college, pay her rent,...
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