- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): A few years in the future
It’s the day after tomorrow and the Arctic sea ice has melted. While global business carves up the new frontier, cruise ships race each other to ever-rarer wildlife sightings. The passengers of the Vanir have come seeking a polar...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Romilly lives in a ramshackle house with her eccentric artist father and her cat, Monty. She knows little about her past – but she knows that she is loved. When her father finds fame with a series of children’s...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Anglesey
- Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Modern Day
How far must you travel to find the way back to yourself? Young widow Elinor Edwards leaves her family in Wales to seek solace amid the rugged scenery of the Amalfi Coast, where she and her husband once spent...
- Location(s): Beara Peninsula
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1986 / early 1600s
It’s 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O’Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One woman found dead. Another kidnapped. Two cases. Two books. One overworked Scottish detective. When the body of an attractive young woman is found in woodland on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that she had...
- Location(s): Nicosia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern back to 1974
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek...
- Location(s): Jeju
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s to present day
A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean...
- Location(s): Dorset, Italian Riviera
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s / contemporary
Dorset, 1965: twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
1928 Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music, literature and dance. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer, training with some of the world s most...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fictional dangers become real to American translator, Ruth Bennett, in this high-octane multicultural thriller. Recently returned to her childhood home in Kyoto, after losing her job in the United States-and her marriage-Ruth was hoping her new job would offer...










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