- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Abigail is having a great time relaxing on a hot and steamy tropical island in Thailand. She tries to stay faithful to her boyfriend back in England, but it isn’t easy when a variety of attractive, fun-loving young people...
- Location(s): Dartmoor
- Genre(s): Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast “with blazing eyes and dripping jaws” which...
- Location(s): Colorado, Littleton
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Caelum Quirk is a middle-aged schoolteacher. Students at Columbine High School generally respect him and turn to his wife Maureen, the school nurse, when in trouble. When he has to return to his home town for the funeral of...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century looking back
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Federí, the...
- Location(s): Porthgarrow
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
1880: Stephen Denning is an artist arriving in Porthgarrow. It is an isolated Cornish fishing community, largely untouched by the modern, developing Victorian world, hanging onto its old traditions, superstitions and beliefs – a community that lives with a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Rosa has arrived in London from Poland to look for her younger brother Mikhail. He is supposed to be staying with their English father, but when she visits the house she finds it’s locked up and there’s no sign...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
A series of vignettes, rather than a structured novel, House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros’s semi-autobiographical account of growing up Chicana in a poor area of Chicago. Esperanza Cordero, at age eleven, has already discovered that being able...
The House With The Lilac Shutters
- Location(s): England, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Irma Lagrasse has taught piano to three generations of villagers, whilst slowly twisting the knife of vengeance; Nico knows a secret; and M. Lenoir has discovered a suppressed and dangerous passion. Revolving around the Café Rose, opposite The House...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Behind closed doors is a secret someone is willing to kill for. I walk into the bright, open living room of my new apartment, and I know this is the fresh start I’ve been dreaming about. As I double...










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