- Location(s): Czech Republic
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
A wealthy young couple in depression-era Czechoslovakia commissions their modernist dream house and live there until personal betrayal and the Nazis arriving on the doorstep end the idyll. The Landauer House is based on Mies Van Der Rohe’s art-deco...
- Location(s): Lahore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another. 1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brothers and their two younger sisters are brought up to be ‘good children’, who do what they’re told. Beaten and browbeaten by their manipulative mother, to...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum’s bedroom at the...
- Location(s): Puigpunyent
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Posts are going on their first family vacation in years, and it’s going to be a special one: Jim and Franny are taking their daughter Sylvia, son Bobby and his girlfriend, and Franny’s best friend Charles and his...
- Location(s): Tripoli
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1970s
1979, set against the brutal police state of Gaddafi’s Libya. Through the eyes of nine year old Suleiman we see and experienc Tripoli, and Suleiman’s family in the city, and what it means not to have freedom.
- Location(s): Jackson
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Early 1960s, Jackson, Mississippi, The Civil Rights movement is thundering along. An unjust world where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal belongings…
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
Brano Sev is framed for murder while on assignment in this book set in Vienna and subsequently removed from the Ministry of State Security and relegated to a factory job,
- Location(s): Kiribati, Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Imagine yourself … adrift in a four-metre tinnie in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific Ocean – lost and seemingly forgotten – shark bait! Ben Tooki, his uncle and a friend were caught in a storm off the island...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO...
- Location(s): South Dakota
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
South Dakota is shivering under an icy winter, and the roads are particularly treacherous. As a snow storm gathers force, the tyres of a bus skid and there is a crash, stranding the bus and its passengers. And if...
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