- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s to present
The Fastest Loser tells Herman’s story. After witnessing the senseless deaths at the Munich Olympic Village in 1972, he aims to find sporting heroes, with different nationalities and ethnicities, who are willing to conceive and raise a child. In...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fortune favours the fraud… When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was destined to lead. Now, at eighteen, Ada is given a second chance when her wealthy...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In The Feast of the Goat he offers a vivid recreation of the...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
This classic of modern reportage by one of Britain’s most distinguished non-fiction writers describes what happened when he got access to the file on him kept during his years in East Germany by the Stasi, the infamous secret police....
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but chronically unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered him with...
The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 2019
Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a journalist, are best friends. Inseparable since they were little, they’ve shared everything; unable to be without each other, even after the most vicious of fights. Now fate has left them...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 2000s
Coroner Jenny Cooper has to examine two bodies washed up after Flight 189 from Heathrow, and destined for JFK, plunges into the Severn Estuary,
- Location(s): China, Nanjing (Nanking)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann,...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 29th Century
Meet Maqil – also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail and Miguel – a chancer and charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and good looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and...
- Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
The Hurlingham Club in Buenos Aires is a little piece of England. Here Audrey Garnet grows up and loses her heart to Louis Forrester, a talented, troubled young man who sets tongues wagging with his eccentric behaviour and chequered...
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