- Location(s): Greece, England, Syria, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction
Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo – until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015 Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive. Born into the lowest class...
- Location(s): Butangen, Norway
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1880s
The first in a rich historical trilogy that draws on legend, by the author of Norwegian Wood and The Sixteen Trees of the Somme. Norway, 1880. In the secluded village of Butangen at the end of the valley, headstrong...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Early 1700s
The only sin is betrayal… It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London’s hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities...
- Location(s): Casablanca, Tafraout
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set in fictional Tiziane, based on Tafraoute. Bringing 1950s Morocco vividly to life, Jane Johnson’s masterful new novel, The Black Crescent, is a gripping story of murder, magic and divided loyalties… Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village...
- Location(s): Québec, Paris
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, In Translation
Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart… FIRST in a bewitching new series ‘The Bleeding begins...
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): London, Southern England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
A BOLEYN WOMAN IS NO STRANGER TO SECRETS… At twelve years old, Kate Carey attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn, to the scaffold. Horrified by what she witnesses, Kate is convinced that King Henry VIII has sent an innocent...
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