- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1880s
A year after Jack the Ripper claimed his last victim, Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime and murder, with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed...
The Year of Living Dangerously
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Jakarta: 1965. Smelling of petrol, frangipani, kretek cigarettes, hatred and fear, the city waits as racial tension mounts. It is The Year of Living Dangerously. As each day passes, East and West alike wait for the explosions to begin...
- Location(s): India, Sheffield
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of...
- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Old enemies join forces in a deadly game of political hardball and techno-terror spanning the Pacific. A vengeful Japanese industrialist, an ambitious and amoral First lady, and a top Korean assassin threaten to tile the balance of world power....
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): WW2
What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska – and not Israel – had become the homeland for the Jews after the Second World War? In Michael Chabon’s Yiddish-speaking ‘Alyeska’, Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the...
- Location(s): Florida, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s, 2000s
1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood. Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when,...
- Location(s): Western Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the...
- Location(s): England, Scotland
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Oh, you’re not crazy, Denise. I think this is probably the sanest you’ve ever been…’ Two women. An open road. The trip of a lifetime. Thea is confident, sorted, determined to have fun, but there are sorrows beneath the...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A NEW CRIME INVESTIGATION BY FEARLESS BUENOS AIRES JOURNALIST VERONICA ROSENTHAL Haunted by nightmares of her past, Verónica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all of his...
There’s an Egg in My Soup: and Other Adventures of an Irishman in Poland
- Location(s): Poland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
The author spent five years living and working in Poland and he recounts his time there in a vivid and enjoyable style.
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