- Location(s): London, South East Asia, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok. The bodies brutally mutilated: an ace of spades impaled upon their chests. In Washington, a US senator receives photographs of the corpses. And realises that his past...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
One man, one choice, two lifetimes. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his identity – and his prospects. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max saves his...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Horror, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
VOLUME 1 IN THE “HOTEL HORROR” SERIES OF SHORT STORIES Meet Ms N – hotelier extraordinary. Ms N can keep her head when confronted with any number of crises and keep all her customers happy – but guests who...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week – 14th May 2012. When the only gig Mark Wallington’s rhythm and blues band can get is in a nursing home they decide it’s time to call it a day. But then...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s (mainly)
Summer, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent has never left the Cornish fishing village of St Steele or ventured far beyond the walls of the boarding house run by her erratic mother. But when the London press pack descends on her...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.’ Tess’s number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy’s father Jason means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe. When...
- Location(s): Washington State, California, Canada, Oregon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
You reach a certain age. You have a lifestyle many would envy. Still, something doesn’t feel right. Life has become routine. You sense there is more out there to experience and explore with an urge gnawing away inside to...
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- Location(s): Edinburgh, India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’...
The Venetia Betrayal (Cotton Malone)
- Location(s): Central Asia, Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Various
For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it – and a cure that lies buried in the past. A secret international coalition has created...
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