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The Stone Gallows

The Stone Gallows
  • Author(s): C David Ingram
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mdern

‘I guess the end justifies the means. At least that’s what I believe. Most of the time’. After the accident, DC Cameron Stone had spent three months in intensive care before he could even recall what happened: the high...

The Storm We Made

The Storm We Made
  • Author(s): Vanessa Chan
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s children are in terrible danger. Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for...

The Story of Before

The Story of Before
  • Author(s): Susan Stairs
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I wonder today how no one else could see the bad thing coming. Not that I knew back then what the bad thing was: and if I had – if I’d known one of us was going to die...

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  • Author(s): David Wroblewski
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A literary debut of stark and striking brilliance – a coming-of-age story, set in the remote wilderness of northern Wisconsin. Born mute and able to communicate only by sign, the brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his...

The Story of My Assassins

The Story of My Assassins
  • Author(s): Tarun J Tejpal
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A sweeping saga of modern India, The Story of My Assassins is gripping from its first sentence: The morning I learnt I d been shot I was sitting in my office on the second floor looking out the big...

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
  • Author(s): Maria Augusta Trapp
  • Location(s): Salzburg
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book traces family history of the Trapp Family Singers, starting with Maria’s days in the convent, and follows the migrations of the family during the War Years, and finishes in their family home in Vermont. The film, The...

The Strange Michael Folmer Affair

The Strange Michael Folmer Affair
  • Author(s): John Rigbey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

Following the murder of a prostitute in London’s East End Detective Chief Inspector Mike Gregory of New Scotland Yard is deputed to investigate what seems to be the emergence of a crazed killer bent on emulating the crimes of...

The Streets

The Streets
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

In 1882, David Wildeblood, a 21-year-old from rural Norfolk, arrives in London to start work at the offices of a famous man. As an ‘inspector’ for Henry Marchmont’s hugely successful weekly The Labouring Classes of London, his job is...

The Strings of Murder

The Strings of Murder
  • Author(s): Oscar de Muriel
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso’s maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room – and no way in or out...

The Suffocating Sea (DI Andy Horton 3)

The Suffocating Sea (DI Andy Horton 3)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

DI Horton is called to investigate a suspicious fire on board a boat, but as soon as he arrives at the marina he experiences a premonition so strong that it’s almost audible. As he views the charred remains of...

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