- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1986
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
After a freak accident, Douglas’s twin brother is dead, and his family’s fragmentation begins. His mother packs up their home in Cape Town and takes him to a tiny backwater town in the semi-desert Karoo region, where she withdraws...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 18th Century
A woman with a past, a man determined to uncover the truth, and a secret that could tear them apart forever. A Grieving Husband: Amon Cayle needs a seamstress. He has spent the last year rebuilding his life after...
Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
- Location(s): England, Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Humour
- Era(s): 1900s-2000s
In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann’s parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family-a mother who might be drifting mentally: a grandfather-a retired cop-who rarely talks: a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former...
- Location(s): London, Sandlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Stunning, charismatic Lexy O’Brien is the reigning queen of British reality TV. Her life in front of the camera is planned and manipulated as successfully as any military assault. But success breeds jealousy. When you’re on top, the only...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1980s
Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997 A stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within the Palace of Westminster…and cost Hensher his job as a House of Commons clerk. John is...
- Location(s): Romsey
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 14th/15th century
“Knight of Her Heart” is the profoundly romantic and passionate journey of Lisette and Rowan – each vulnerable and less than perfect, yet worthy of finding happiness. It is a story of repentance and forgiveness; desperation and hope; and...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
Kolymsky Heights. A frozen Siberian hell lost in endless night. The perfect location for an underground Russian research station. It’s a place so secret it doesn’t officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist...
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