- Location(s): North Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Horror
- Era(s): Modern
Nothing stays hidden forever. In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing. The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive,...
- Location(s): Key West
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
n Jennifer L. Holm’s New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn’t like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She’s smart and tough and has seen enough of...
- Location(s): Africa, New Orleans, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century/19th Century
Spanning three continents and two centuries, Twelve Bar Blues is an epic tale of fate, family, friendship and jazz. At its heart is Lick Holden, a young jazz musician, who sets New Orleans on fire with his cornet at...
- Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she’s danced across the world, from...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up...
- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Four very different women from one family, united by a loss of self, embark on a quest for happiness that takes them to Singapore, Thailand and beyond. Join Maggie, Beth, Dara and Biggles as they cry, laugh and curse...
- Location(s): North America
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary / 10 years before
THE QUESTION For the last ten years, the small town of West Wilmer has been struggling to answer one question: on the night of the crash that killed his sister, why did it take Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Half a century ago when Mochtar Lubis’s Twilight in Jakarta was secreted out of Indonesia and published in London, it was the first Indonesian novel ever to be published in English translation. The novel, a depiction of social and...
- Location(s): Kent, Sheffield
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
A field of strawberries in Kent and sitting in it are two caravans – one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner’s son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy...
Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness
- Location(s): Seville, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
A bench looking out onto the harbour on the French-Spanish border; a cash-strapped existence strolling the sunbaked streets and promenades of Seville, or the cold embrace of the daily grind back in hometown USA; Granville, cut adrift in Europe,...
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