- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern from about 2008
Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- Location(s): Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Around 1990s
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s to 1990s
A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others – an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives...
- Location(s): California, The Basque Country
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A Korean War widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of her daughter’s father and his cultural heritage. As Dee sorts through what little her mother left, she unearths puzzling clues that raise more questions: Why did Leora...
- Location(s): Cornwall, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Periods in the 20th Century
Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature – it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen ‘shining girls’ through the...
- Location(s): Tarawa, Suva
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The Shoeshine Killer is the second of the bestselling Scottish Detective Lady mysteries, featuring DS Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh. Louisa is on her first visit to Fiji and immediately gets caught up in the search for a double killer....
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): From 14500BCE to modern
Ever since US Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its borders in 1853, the culture of this remarkable and distant archipelago has enriched western life. At the same time the country has embraced foreign institutions from baseball to...
- Location(s): Central Asia, London, Middle East
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
An act of mercy Or the ultimate betrayal… Who decides? Samira is an up-and-coming TV journalist, working the nightshift at a major news channel and yearning for greater things. So when she’s offered a trip to the Middle East,...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘The dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns’ Observer Inside a beautiful Victorian family home in Glasgow’s West End, a mother and her young son are found brutally murdered. DI Costello is furious...
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