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The Calling

The Calling
  • Author(s): Philip Caveney
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemoporary

A boy wakes up on a train to Edinburgh.He is shocked to discover that no idea who he is or how he came to be on the train – and once off it, he finds himself immersed in the...

The Carrier

The Carrier
  • Author(s): Mattias Berg
  • Location(s): Sweden, Belgium, Sicily, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2013

Erasmus Levine has a job like no other He travels with the President of the United States at all times, and holds in his hands the power to obliterate life as we know it. He is the man with...

The Chase

The Chase
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Espionage
  • Era(s): Current

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace. She’s been assigned to track down a man wanted by the Russians and bring him into MI5. It should be easy. But the Russians have eyes everywhere. Emma knows...

The Chemical Detective

The Chemical Detective
  • Author(s): Fiona Erskine
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Dr Jaq Silver. Skier, scientist, international jet-setter, explosives expert. She blows things up to keep people safe. Working on avalanche control in Slovenia, Jaq stumbles across a problem with a consignment of explosives. After raising a complaint with the supplier,...

The Child Of Ukraine (formerly published as “Motherland”)

The Child Of Ukraine (formerly published as “Motherland”)
  • Author(s): Tetyana Denford
  • Location(s): Ukraine, Austria, Germany, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941 - Present Day

Ukraine, 1940. She cups her daughter’s face with her trembling hands, imprinting it on her mind. ‘I love you. Be brave,’ she whispers through her tears, her heart breaking into a thousand pieces. Sending her child away is the...

The Child on Platform One

The Child on Platform One
  • Author(s): Gill Thompson
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World war two

Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam safe is to send her away – even if it means never seeing her...

The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam

The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam
  • Author(s): Elias Khoury
  • Location(s): Palestine, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

A moving story about Palestine’s 1948 Exodus by the Arab world’s finest living novelist. First in a trilogy. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father...

The City Always Wins

The City Always Wins
  • Author(s): Omar Robert Hamilton
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2011

“We’ve been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing . This time will be different. This time the future can still be made new.” This is a revolution. On the streets...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

The Coast Road

The Coast Road
  • Author(s): Alan Murrin
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1994

It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley – the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette...

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