- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910s
A city in flames. A revolution raging. A woman on the run. Nadezhda has never wanted to be a witch. But the occult is in her blood. Her mother, Militza, conjured Rasputin and introduced him into the Romanov court,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is...
- Location(s): Malta, Valletta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Malta, 1943. The war in the air above Malta is over, but the battle for Europe is about to begin. Margarita, a young singer in a Valletta nightclub, has not seen her former lover Henry Dunn since breaking off...
The Smuggler’s Apprentice of Guatemala
- Location(s): Guatemala
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In London, the clandestine digital corridors of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) are thrown open as a list of intelligence officers is leaked online. With the identities of intelligence officers blown, and a secretive smuggling network developing in Guatemala,...
- Location(s): England, Ireland, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the opening story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind – to sleep with another man – Antarctica draws you into a world of obsession, betrayal and fragile...
- Location(s): Ballina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo’s fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev...
- Location(s): Gateshead, The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom Stonem is dreaming of a quiet Christmas alone. But in the shadow of the Angel of the North, a body lies waiting. The dead man is posed with a child’s Christmas...
- Location(s): Europe, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autofiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she’s the toast of the grandest opera...
- Location(s): The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): pre WW2, WW2, post WW2
Meg was born at the start of the Great Depression. Surrounded by poverty and unemployment she grew up in the gritty reality of a butcher’s shop in a pit village in the North East of England. The youngest child,...
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