Based on the actual sieges at Cawnpore and Lucknow, this is a book based in Krishnapur, a fictional Indian town. Like the mysteriously appearing chapatis, life in British India seems, on the surface, innocuous enough. Farrell introduces us gradually...

This book takes place during the summer of 1480. Guid’Antonio Vespucci and his nephew Amerigo return from a two-year diplomatic mission only to discover that Florence is very much under the thumb of Lorenzo de Medici and ther is...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE   From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with an unquenchable sense of wonder by her father,...

Karl Werthen is the protagonist, aided by his wife Berthe. Werthen is at first hired to find a wealthy family’s oldest son. As he goes to their mansion we learn one of the many things about 1900 Vienna that...

Bonaventure Arrow is born into grief with an extraordinary gift to hear beyond what the average person can hear. This is a story of texture and fabric set in 1950s Louisiana

Everyone thinks I’m a quiet, ordinary woman, moving into this apartment for a new start. But they don’t know my secret… My new apartment is in an unfamiliar city. My neighbours are always busy, coming and going at all...

What will it take to put the past to rest? Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invitation to visit her family’s ancestral home, Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives, life-like dreams and visions haunt her. The spiritual connection...

Jean-Luc Olivier is a devastatingly handsome racing-driver with the world before him. Sophie Challoner is a penniless student, whose face is unknown beyond her own rundown estate in London. The night they spend together in Paris seems to Sophie...

On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure – but Grant is not so sure. Teased...

Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny summer afternoon by the lake and in full view of her family and friends. Why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat,...