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Witness the Dead

Witness the Dead
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1970s

Scotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk – a feared serial killer who selects his victims in the city’s nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to...

Woman of a Certain Rage

Woman of a Certain Rage
  • Author(s): Georgie Hall
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A smart and funny novel about love, life and a second shot at freedom for rebellious women of a certain age. Eliza is angry. Very angry, and very, very hot. Late for work and dodging traffic, she’s still reeling...

You Are Here

You Are Here
  • Author(s): David Nicholls
  • Location(s): Cumbria, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Easter 2021

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it’s passing her by. Michael is coming...

Yule Island

Yule Island
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Storholmen, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and Scandinavia’s deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns with a chilling, utterly...

Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek
  • Author(s): Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with...

Block 46

Block 46
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Falkenberg, Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea’s. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In...

The Miniaturist

The Miniaturist
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1680s

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from...

The Moment

The Moment
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage,...

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen
  • Author(s): Ada Bright, Cass Grafton
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

It’s September, and the beautiful city of Bath is playing host to the annual Jane Austen Festival, a celebration of the famous author and her works. Rose Wallace, Bath resident and avid Jane Austen fan, can’t wait for her...

Telling Sonny

Telling Sonny
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gauffreau
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1925-1945

An atmospheric historical novel set in small-town Vermont, where 19-year-old Faby lives with her close-knit French family, Maman Aurore, Papa, Mémère, and sister Josephine. The story traces an eventful year in Faby’s young life when she meets and marries...

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