- Location(s): London, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Lucy is heading back to Australia for her best friend’s wedding when she gets a text from her boyfriend’s phone from someone saying they have just slept with him. She is just about to take off, trapped for many...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Intrigue, adventure and a stack load of cash Rachel White, a young archaeologist, is left a mysterious legacy of £8 million by an old lady she met in Edinburgh when she was a child. Setting off to discover why,...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall has loomed high above the Scottish cliffs as a beacon of excellence in the ancestral castle of Lord William Hope. A boarding school for girls, it promises that its pupils will emerge ‘resilient and...
- Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....
- Location(s): Berlin, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction, Novella
- Era(s): 20th Century up to 1945
The Observer’s Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, and featured on BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour Unloved sons turn their aggression on the outside world. Unloved daughters destroy the people they love,...
- Location(s): Bath, Minnesota, Paris
- Genre(s): Romance
Passport to love London-based PR and promotions consultant Rosie Denham has just spent a year in Paris where she’s tried but failed to fall in love. She’s also made a big mistake and can’t forgive herself. American IT professor...
- Location(s): Jersey
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
The thrilling debut from comedy writer and stand up star, Will Smith – a novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about the corroding effects of keeping secrets. ‘John le Carré meets ‘Middlemarch’ Independent `We’re on an island. Know...
- Location(s): Calgary
Calgary police detective Lane is under investigation at work and his partner Arthur might have cancer. The couple also looks after 2 teenagers. He then is assigned a new work partner, Keely Saliba.
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern looking backn
In Mandarin Gate, Edgar Award winner Eliot Pattison brings Shan back in a thriller that navigates the explosive political and religious landscape of Tibet. In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Manila is not for the faint of heart. Population: over ten million and growing by the minute. Climate: hot, humid and prone to torrential monsoon rains of biblical proportions. The ultimate femme fatale, she’s complicated and mysterious, with a...
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