The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11)
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
It’s a fresh start for the Met’s oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Their first case involves two teenagers who see a dead man rising from his grave in a London park. And if that’s not alarming enough,...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
It is 1965. Ian Smith unilaterally declares Rhodesia independent under white minority rule. The UN declares an embargo, bestowing Her Majesty’s government whatever means of enforcement necessary. With no country recognising Rhodesia, they are desperate for trade. David Tusk,...
- Location(s): North Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown...
- Location(s): Daraya
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
‘This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.’ Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012...
- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of...
The Book of Jakarta (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young woman takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover that the destination she is hurtling towards is now entirely submerged… A group of elderly women visit a famous amusement park for one last...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson. When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century
London 1666. Young Agnes Wilmore arrives in the bustling city from the small of Castle Combe to pursue her dreams. Robert Hubert, a romantic sociopath, takes advantage of the girl on her first night in town, and from that...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The girl was beautiful, even in death. Her skin was translucent beneath the sliver of moonlight peeking through the bare branches of the surrounding pines, and her chestnut hair had tumbled around her pale shoulders. Around her, smoke twisted...
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Saunas, love and a ladleful of murder… A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered … in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death?...
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