The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone)
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1800s and Modern
12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone’s closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble – and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Dennis Milne is a former cop and part-time assassin. He kills the bad guys – people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. Now he’s in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who’s made some deadly...
- Location(s): Las Vegas, London
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 2004-8 / 2024
Beneath the glamour dark secrets lurk. World famous singer Enola had it all – fame, fortune, and a breathtaking penthouse view. Then she vanished without a trace, leaving the band’s careers in ruins. Fifteen years on, the remaining members...
- Location(s): Micronesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu’ivu in search of a rumoured lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe...
The People of Ostrich Mountain
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
As the 1950s Mau Mau war breaks out in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, Wambũi, a fourteen-year-old girl leaves her besieged village to join a prestigious boarding school a half day’s journey away by train. There, she becomes aware...
- Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Sailing solo across the Atlantic westward from France Dr. Christine Palmer a doctor, finds man David Slaton, clinging to wreckage. Soon he takes over command of the boat as he wants to go to England. Both find themselves running...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ELEGANCE and THE DEBUTANTE. One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe’s life upside down: ‘Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs...
- Location(s): Mekong Delta
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency’ Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world’s...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1939
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio ‘fixer’, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the...
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