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Summer Heat

Summer Heat
  • Author(s): Defne Suman
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1974 / 2003

1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she’s scared. She can tell from her parents’ urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that Istanbul...

You Are Here

You Are Here
  • Author(s): David Nicholls
  • Location(s): Cumbria, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Easter 2021

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it’s passing her by. Michael is coming...

Goodnight Tokyo

Goodnight Tokyo
  • Author(s): Atsuhiro Yoshida, Haydn Trowell (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matsui is the driver of a taxi the colour of the night sky. Every night between the hours of 1 am and 4.30 am, Matsui guides his taxi around the streets of Tokyo, collecting passengers and their stories. Seen...

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
  • Author(s): Wole Talabi
  • Location(s): Lagos, London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Science Fiction Award-nominated and Nebula Finalist debut novel from Wole Talabi. This contemporary fantasy is filled with the mythos of Nigeria and features Yoruba gods liberating an artefact from the depths of the British Museum. Shigidi is...

Our Hideous Progeny

Our Hideous Progeny
  • Author(s): C E McGill
  • Location(s): London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn’t know why or how… The 1850s is a time of discovery and London is ablaze with the...

Saltblood

Saltblood
  • Author(s): Francesca De Tores
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Netherlands, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
  • Era(s): 17th Century

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary’s dual existence as...

Gods of the Lost Crossroads

Gods of the Lost Crossroads
  • Author(s): Robin Lloyd-Jones
  • Location(s): London, Peru
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1823

Rainbow, an African shaman travels through London in the early-nineteenth century in an attempt to locate the gods who will rescue his homeland from famine. Ending up with the mercenaries in the Peruvian War of Independence he finds his...

The African Samurai

The African Samurai
  • Author(s): Craig Shreve
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The incredible story of the slave who became a Japanese samurai. In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his...

The Curse of Pietro Houdini

The Curse of Pietro Houdini
  • Author(s): Derek B Miller
  • Location(s): Lazio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

We will lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill, and sin our way to Napoli. We will trust no one but each other, and we will remember that in this place, at this time, there is no way to tell friend...

The Spy

The Spy
  • Author(s): Ajay Chowdhury
  • Location(s): East London, Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Kamil Rahman Book 4 ONE MISSING BOY. ONE MAN UNDERCOVER. A WHOLE NATION AT RISK. Detective Kamil Rahman is working for the Met Police when he gets the call from MI5. They’ve received intelligence of a terrorist plot,...

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