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Killer Affair

Killer Affair
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • 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...

King Rat

King Rat
  • Author(s): James Clavell
  • 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...

Kitchen Venom

Kitchen Venom
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • 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...

Knight of Her Heart

Knight of Her Heart
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • 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...

Kolymsky Heights

Kolymsky Heights
  • Author(s): Lionel Davidson
  • 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...

Labyrinth

Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1209, 2005

When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons at an archaeological site in southern France, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past. But it’s not just the sight of the shattered bones that makes her uneasy: there’s...

Ladysmith

Ladysmith
  • Author(s): Giles Foden
  • Location(s): Ladysmith
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

In the dying days of the 19th century, the world’s eyes turned to the small South African town of Ladysmith, whose inhabitants spent 118 days under siege from Boer forces, waiting for General Buller’s relief forces. Giles Foden tells...

Land of Love and Drowning

Land of Love and Drowning
  • Author(s): Tiphanie Yanique
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

n the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck are two sisters and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain...

Land of Marvels

Land of Marvels
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914

This novel from Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth, takes place in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World. Virtually every European country is in Iraq, waiting for the weakened Ottoman Empire to...

Last Ferry to Bute

Last Ferry to Bute
  • Author(s): Myra Duffy
  • Location(s): Argyll and Bute
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

Something strange is going on at the Hereuse Nursing home on the Isle of Bute. One of the residents, Jessie McAdam, thinks her life is in danger. Alison Cameron, who is reluctantly arranging a college reunion on the island,...

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