- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
Like many eighteen-year-old boys, Saga’s prime concerns are: listening to music his mum calls “hop-hip”, learning about girls from his suave best mate Ibrahim, and making sure his considerable tummy is well-fed. In his affluent, liberal and relatively protected...
- Location(s): Dudley, West Midlands
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): 1950s and 60s.
The hilarious, fictional adventures of young, Dennis Bisskit. Growing up in Dudley in the 1950s and 60s. Schooldays , his first jobs at a department story and hotel, and finally as a young adult in the army. Fun of...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A DEADLY PROSECUTOR They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. A TWISTED RITUALISTIC KILLING When a young woman,...
- Location(s): Wigtown
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown – Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of...
- Location(s): Tajikistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2007-2008
Dedicated to the women of Tajikistan, The Disobedient Wife intertwines the narratives of a British expatriate, Harriet, whose journal portrays a darker interior world than that of the rich wife of the powerful Henri Simenon, and Nargis, her local...
The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)
- Location(s): London, Tewkesbury
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary Dual timeline
Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. London, 1940 A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist...
- Location(s): Stockholm, Gotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
There are two sides to every story. Which one will you believe? Together for more than thirty years, Bea and Niklas live a comfortable life in Stockholm. But one evening, following a trivial argument, Niklas disappears. Weeks pass before...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern/1950s
When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 Darby McLaughlin is everything her hall mates aren’t: plain, self-conscious, homesick and convinced she doesn’t belong. Yet when she befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she’s introduced to an entirely...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Sensationally good, wise, wry and perceptive – this era’s great state-of-the-city novel, up there with the very best of Tom Wolfe and Jay McInerney.’ LEE CHILD The new electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestseller and master of...
- Location(s): Italian Alps
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become. Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his childhood summers in a secluded valley in...
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