- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
THE WIFE: Clare is ready for a break. It’s been a tough year and now she wants to put her feet up. Arriving at the Italian villa for their summer holiday, she decides it’s high time her husband and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1580s
A historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist and a hero like you’ve never seen him before When he’s caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Imagine a man who will be anything you want. Who will listen attentively to every word you say and intuit everything you don’t. A man willing to explore all the dark corners of your body and your mind. A...
- Location(s): Dickoya
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s/30s
Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husband. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 17th Century
A historical romance, “The Three Musketeers” tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D’Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King’s Musketeers – Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye...
- Location(s): Kent
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their...
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
- Location(s): Cremona, Kent, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David,...
The Various Flavours of Coffee
- Location(s): Eritrea, Ethiopia, London, North Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1890s
It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee – and encounters Pinker’s free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
We live in an age when things that would once have seemed miraculous are starting to seem mundane – even if they still, sometimes, bring with them profound implications… In The Weightless World, Anthony Trevelyan – a new, supremely...
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