The Convenience Store by the Sea
- Location(s): Kitakyushu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Tenderness! A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. At first glance, it’s a store like any other. Sure, it’s a bit odd...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband, she hopes it will be the fresh start she and her step-daughter Hannah desperately need. Trevenen is beautiful but neglected, a rambling house steeped...
The Corpse at the Crystal Palace (Daisy Dalrymple #23)
- Location(s): Crystal Palace
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1928
April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is being visited in London by her young cousins who are desperate to see the Crystal Palace. On discovering that her children’s nanny, Gilpin, has also never seen the palace, Daisy decides to make...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set during the recent turbulent times in Thailand, the 11th novel in the Calvino series centers around the street demonstrations and occupation of Government House in Bangkok. Hired by an American businessman, Calvino finds himself caught in the middle...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Nora, has come to Glass Beach to find out who she is and what she needs to do after being devastated by her husband’s infidelity. This is where Nora’s spent some of her childhood and as she and her...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Future
In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her people survive by scavenging in the detritus of an abandoned civilization. Theirs is a world of children – by the time they reach twenty, each of...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
A beautifully written story of the near future and its murky underworld … Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. It’s a stressful...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘My name is Laddy Merridew. I’m a cry-baby. I’m sorry.’ ‘And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that’s worse.’ The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s
When Joe Geraghty’s brother finds himself in financial trouble, it’s only natural that he turns to the Private Investigator for help. But when it relates to a missing consignment of smuggled cigarettes, it’s not so easily sorted. Drawn into...
The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)
- Location(s): North Pennines
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . . Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after...
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