- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love. Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt, a recently-returned Vietnam...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1941-1963
On a quiet moonlit night, Ah Boon, young and terrified, takes his first trip out to sea in his father’s fishing boat – a rite of passage for the boys of the kampong village. As the air hums and...
- Location(s): Ardnamurchan, West of Scotland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mum-of-three Ronni Ashcroft had just pieced her life back together after her husband left. On a remote spur of the Scottish Highlands, she kept her successful guest house going and even met a new man, Bishop. But it turned...
- Location(s): Kashmir
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
‘The night is tired now, the old moon, hanging in the dark sky, is tired too’ It is the 1990s, and Kashmir’s long war has begun to claim its first victims. Among them are Ghulam Rasool Joo, Haleema’s father,...
- Location(s): Manchester, Saddleworth Moor
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Connie splashed through puddles, the rain slapping her face. Everywhere was tarmac and concrete, fog and drizzle, but no sign of her child. ‘Have you seen my daughter? Please, you must’ve seen her?’ Connie’s face crumpled, preparing to cry....
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert’s, comes...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
A Richard and Judy Book Club 2019 pick (A Leo Stanhope Case) Everyone has a secret… Only some lead to murder. Introducing Leo Stanhope: a Victorian transgender coroner’s assistant who must uncover a killer without risking his own future...
- Location(s): West Wales
- Genre(s): Paranormal
- Era(s): Present with echoes of WW1
The ghosts of a century’s worth of secrets and betrayals are coming home to Pengarrow… Evie has lost her eldest son, Jesse, to gang violence. Leaving the house he grew up in is pulling apart the few strings left...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1482
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo’s powerful novel of ‘imagination, caprice and fantasy’ is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In...
- Location(s): Inverness-shire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year. The beautiful one The golden couple The volatile one The new parents The quiet one The city boy The outsider The victim. Not...
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