- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1970s looking back a century
Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his...
- Location(s): London, Oxford
- Era(s): Modern
Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills – the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain’s pride and misery,...
- Location(s): Balkans, Paris, Thessaloniki (Salonika)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
Salonika 1940, Constantine Zannis the central character, policeman working on sensitive cases. As the war draws closer he becomes more involved in spying and Allied agent. He assists in the escape of Jews from Germany, to Turkey, and to...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS...
- Location(s): Halifax
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if one moment – one split second – changed everything? When a firearms officer shoots a suspect dead and wounds another, who later dies in hospital, the official line is that the sun was in her eyes. Her...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Canadian-born David Szalay won both the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber prizes for his debut, London & the South-East. In Spring, his third novel, he analyses the relationship between two youngish Londoners – James, who is ready for love,...
- Location(s): St Thomas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910s
A Girl. A Deserter. An Island full of Spies. At the height of the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro arrives in the Danish West Indies to live with her Aunt Esther, a bad tempered spinster, and her houseful...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn...
- Location(s): County Cork, Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Dominique (‘Domino’) lives a charmed existence as wife to one of Ireland’s most successful businesssmen, Brendan Delahaye – until the day Brendan disappears, leaving his company in disarray and Domino and their daughter alone to face the music. STAND...
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