- Location(s): Nepal
- Era(s): Modern
Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1979
“Whirlwind” is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. They are ordered...
- Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
There’s only one thing more deadly than the storm… Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec’s remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for...
- Location(s): Savannah
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When his beloved wife Nina suddenly dies – after 23 years of life together – Alberto Landi understands he has to leave Milan Italy, where he has always lived and worked. He leaves his friends, colleagues, a good job...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern
This book follow on from Rivers of London and Moon over Soho. Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And its just as well – he’s already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a...
- Location(s): Battambang
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half 20th century
When emotionally damaged mine-clearer Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to find out the truth behind her ex-husband’s death, she doesn’t know much about the country or its beliefs. On arrival, she finds that teenage mothers are going missing, while...
- Location(s): Gaborone
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Botswana, 1976. Isaac Muthethe thinks that he is dead. Forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force, he finds himself, for the first time, in a country without...
- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
This is set in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic, and is an aborbing crime thriller. The central character is Edie Kiglatuk, an tiny Inuit woman with a determination that is stunning, as she investigates a murder.
White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2)
- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim – a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the...
- Location(s): Whitstable
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 1971
1971. A middle-aged man, wracked with grief, walks along the beach at Whitstable in Kent… A boy approaches him and, taking him for the famous vampire-hunter Doctor Van Helsing from the Hammer movies, asks for his help. Because he...










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