- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 2000BC
Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the...
- Location(s): Tallinn
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Banks is back – and this time he’s investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century up to 1945
‘Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order’ Guardian In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary...
- Location(s): Glasgow, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Mick Little used to be a shipbuilder on the Glasgow yards. But as they closed one after another down the river, the search for work took him and his beloved wife Cathy to Australia, and back again, struggling for...
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the predawn hours, a woman’s marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across town, an immigrant family struggles to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away, a soldier wakes up in hospital with the vague...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A stunning, heartbreaking debut – ‘We Are Not Ourselves’ is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century. Raised in the 1940s in the mostly Irish...
- Location(s): Dartmoor
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and moved to France to pursue their dream of restoring an old barn near Nimes.That dream then became much, much bigger, as they...
- Location(s): Jeju, Seoul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an...
- Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman’s nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive,...
- Location(s): South Dakota
Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By...
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