- 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...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
an epic mystical drama of a young woman’s sudden sainthood in late-19th century Mexico. It is 1889 and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16 year old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Present Day
It’s been twenty years since they were all at school together. So when a group of female friends gather at a beautiful but isolated Scottish island lodge for a weekend away, they’re looking forward to relaxing, sharing updates on...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. The man is in the employ of the mysterious ‘Company’,...
- Location(s): Huntingfield
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
Plucky and headstrong Mildred Holland revelled in the eight years she and her husband, the vicar William Holland, spent travelling 1840s Europe, finding inspiration in recording beautiful artistic treasures and collecting exotic artifacts. But William’s new posting in a...
- Location(s): Malta
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1940s
Summer, 1942. For the people of Malta, suffering daily bombing raids, the British are the last line of defence against the Nazis. And it is Max Chadwick’s job as the information officer to ensure the news the islanders receive...
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