- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/Modern
After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia’s killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Crime
An anonymous letter sent to Larkwood’s Prior accuses Peter Henderson, an academic celebrity renowned for daring ideas, of a grotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, believed by everyone to have died peacefully two years previously...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
This book is moving towards being a classic work in the founding of the modern Republic of India, as seen through the eyes of its first Chief executive, Jawaharlal Nehru.
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A mother’s suicide threatens to destroy a family legacy. Her sons, Sam and Daniel, are forced to leave their comfortable worlds behind and search for a woman they believe can unlock the secrets that have remained hidden. They are...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money – she was a favourite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lectora – and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit...
- Location(s): Reno
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce – except in...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 8th century
Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn’s Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period―the golden age of Baghdad. A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript. When Nardeen’s home is stormed by angry...
- Location(s): Thessaly
- Genre(s): Mystery
A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard – trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi, just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray’s cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they’ve gone. He takes off...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back at the 1980s
One starless night Janie’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up...










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