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The Murder Wall

The Murder Wall
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle’s Quayside gives...

5 Peppermint Grove

5 Peppermint Grove
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Perth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2011/2012

Emigration, emigration, emigration . . . Ruth Travers is leaving Ireland like so many of the Irish Diaspora who have gone before her. But, instead of a coffin ship, she’s travelling business class on a Boeing 777 and will...

Black Run

Black Run
  • Author(s): Antonio Manzini
  • Location(s): Champoluc, Valle d'Aosta
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps, the first in a sensational crime series. The dark flanks of the Alps tower over everything. Wind whistles through the fir trees. An expanse of ice...

Children of the Jacaranda Tree

Children of the Jacaranda Tree
  • Author(s): Sahar Delijani
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1983 and late 2000s

Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin prison. Yet even within its walls three women dare to dream of a life beyond tyranny. Azar gives birth to her...

Deadly Deceit

Deadly Deceit
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Four a.m on a wet stretch of the A1 and a driver skids out of control. Quick on the scene, Senior Investigating Officer Kate Daniels and partner DS Hank Gormley are presented with a horrifying image of carnage and...

I’m Not Scared

I’m Not Scared
  • Author(s): Niccolò Ammaniti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern/1970s

The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses enclosed by wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Whilst exploring a dilapidated and...

In the Kingdom of Men

In the Kingdom of Men
  • Author(s): Kim Barnes
  • Location(s): Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

When Gin McPhee’s husband Mason takes a job at the Arabian American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, it unlocks a glamorous new lifestyle far from their humble beginnings in Oklahoma. It is a life of private clubs, dinner parties,...

Land Where I Flee

Land Where I Flee
  • Author(s): Prajwal Parajuly
  • Location(s): Gangtok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney’s Chaurasi – her landmark 84th birthday – three of Chitralekha’s grandchildren are travelling to Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from New York. Although a successful oncologist, he is dreading his...

One Kiss in Havana

One Kiss in Havana
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Emma, Louise and Sophie are sisters. Talented, artistic and creative, they have a lot in common especially when it comes to men. When Emma receives two tickets to Cuba in the post from her late husband she is more...

Road to Rouen

Road to Rouen
  • Author(s): Ben Hatch
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Ben Hatch is on the road again. Commissioned to write a guidebook about France (despite not speaking any French) he sets off with visions of relaxing chateaux and refined dining. Ten thousand miles later his family’s been attacked by...

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