- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading – and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search...
- Location(s): Belitung
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
You are introduced to the pupils at the village school one by one, drawn into each of their stories and struggles, and then you find you are really hooked in to this wonderful story. Set on the island of...
- Location(s): Kintyre
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion near Kinloch for their annual AGM. Shannon International is one of the world s biggest private companies, with tendrils reaching around the globe in computing, banking...
The Raven Witch of Corfu – episode 1 of 4
- Location(s): Messonghi
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern world
A terrible evil lurks in the mountain… Lizzie is not your average tourist. She may have just arrived on the idyllic Greek island of Corfu, but her mind is not on having a good time. Far from it, Lizzie...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
The fields at Raven Fen yield barely enough for Agne and his family to live on, and his young son Klas can only watch as despair consumes his father. While Klas dreams of migrating birds – of escape –...
- Location(s): South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mainly second half 20th Century
It begins with a journey. In a resurrected bungalow on the edge of the fledgling nation of Zimbabwe, Sergeant Gordon’s story has come to rest. He has borne it across drought-blasted floodplains and highlands, fleeing the copper mine which...
The Red Brick Cellars: A Tolosa Mystery
- Location(s): Toulouse
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murdered mayor. A second body reduced to skeleton and dust. The public display so horrific that the police are baffled. Everyone assumes uninterested heir Louis Saint-Blancat will finally settle down and focus on the politics of Toulouse, France....
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century and Current
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen’s ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence – and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is...
- Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1975
Winner of the E.M. Forster Award and shortlistedfor the Booker Prize, this brutal and beautifulnarration of the guerrilla war against theIndonesians in Timor, praised by Fretilin ForeignMinister and Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Hortafor its ‘perfect authenticity’.
- Location(s): Great Barrier Reef
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Beneath the calm aqua waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is an ongoing war for survival. It is a war among the creatures, the life forms and the coral that make up the reef. It is so threatened...
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