- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
THE SURFACING is set largely on board a ship in the 1850s, searching for Franklin’s lost expedition. It’s a challenging and dangerous endeavour in a very male world – that is until Morgan, the second-in-command of the Impetus, realises...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called...
- Location(s): Sussex Downs
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
‘Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!’ Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the...
The Swallow and the Hummingbird
- Location(s): Argentina, Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her as they had planned. But the boy who joined the RAF has returned a man, and a...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen’s dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): 2000s
Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer. Ben...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): 2015
It’s summer when fictional Elm Hill lido, in South London, opens, having stood empty for years. For Natalie Steele – wife, mother, teacher – it offers freedom from the tightly controlled routines of work and family. Especially when it...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself – the man,...
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