- Location(s): Port Moresby
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When Roberta “Bertie” Lightfoot is struck down with polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn’t tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother’s daughter – until she sets her heart on becoming an artist. Through drawing, the...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Five people in a sleepy English coastal town. One year that changes everything. They seem to have it all. They’re in good health and are financially secure. They live in a pleasant and comfortable town. But as their lives...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1930s
Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés: marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers: dangerous, with its vice and intrigue: powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires-this is the period when Hitler was beginning...
- 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...
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