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...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1914
A stunning novel set in the Edwardian era about a seamstress working at Buckingham Palace. Full of drama, betrayal and addictive real-life detail – The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow is perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Joanne...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Historical
The story is set principally about the Americans attempting to dislodge a British incursion at Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts, Summer 1779. Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Dean Street, Brooklyn. When Abraham and Rachel Ebdus arrive there in the early 1970s, they are among the first whites to venture into a mainly black neighborhood that is just beginning to be called Boerum Hill.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 18th Century
Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. They were abandoned at birth outside the steps of the Ospedale della Pieta, Venice’s world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. Rebellious Chiaretta develops into a dazzling singer, soon becoming...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it’s time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her...
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