- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Battered and bruised, Elizabeth has taken her daughter and left her abusive husband Patrick. Again. In the bleak and impersonal Glasgow housing office Elizabeth meets the provocatively intriguing drug addict Sadie, who is desperate to get her own life...
- Location(s): Dungeness
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
He is a murderer himself. But the victim was his only friend; like him, a passionate birdwatcher. South is warily partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi, newly recruited to the Kent coast from London. Together they find...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain’s most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges Declan dreams of becoming a writer. It’s a dream that helps him escape the realities of his life – going through the motions...
- Location(s): Muswell Hill
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pru’s husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She’s missing not so much him, but the life they once had – picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SOUTH AFRICAN SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY AWARDS Young, beautiful and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse,...
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 1940s
‘1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing…’ On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe and the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Recently bereaved, George Newhouse, is an art historian and newly appointed curator at the National Gallery who becomes increasingly obsessed with a lost minor Dutch masterpiece, The Blue Horse by Van Doelenstraat. The painting’s provenance is disputed and many...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
A crime thriller that takes you around the Museums in New York! Again there is a murder which is investigated by Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. There are several twists in the relationship...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1929
Paris, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream – he’s getting paid to troll the cafes and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a...
- Location(s): Europe, Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice, she’s a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets...










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