- Location(s): Marrakech, Morocco
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
High on the cliffs of Morocco, far from the city lights and the souks, stands The Surf House: a sanctuary for travellers chasing sunshine and waves. But the idyll hides a dark mystery. And when Bea washes in, seeking...
- Location(s): Málaga
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): April 2024
Karen tags along with her son who is on a work trip to Marbella, Spain. But she checks out nearby Malaga and stays there while he is at is conference. She reads all she can in the six weeks...
- Location(s): England, Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Funke’s mother dies in an accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, sensible Funke strives to fit in, determined to become one of them....
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Future
- Era(s): Near future looking back
A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE BEGINNING MEETS THE END. ENGLAND IS FOREVER. ENGLAND MUST FALL. In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job...
- Location(s): Cairo, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek’s whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Have you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us? In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as...
- Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts), Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she meets Christoph, a German student visiting campus. They only spend a week together – discussing art, ideas and history – but it is long enough for Anna to fall desperately...
- Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
The dream holiday just got complicated . . . On the sun-drenched island of Kefalonia, the new arrivals at The Ionian Escape hotel are hoping for a break from everyday life. But some of them are bringing a lot...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen’s memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they...
- Location(s): South Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
A puzzling crime puts the cat amongst the pigeons in a small Welsh town Two boys get a huge fright when they discover the body of a man whilst exploring a disused railway tunnel. To DCI Matt Lambert it...
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