- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move forwards with their lives. Dora, the youngest daughter, lives in...
- Location(s): Munich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Recent modern
Alex has spent the majority of his adult life torn between two very different women-and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, beautiful, charming, and ambitious, she...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar, the orchestra’s leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room, his colleagues are shocked. But the show...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 21st Century
The first US presidential election of the twenty-first century is stolen through computer fraud. The losing candidate discovers the truth and demands that the victor, his long-time friend and rival, step down. The incumbent President refuses, thereby sparking a...
- Location(s): Tolleshunt D'Arcy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Travel Together Tour Manager Eve Mitchell is planning a quiet Christmas at home to rest and relax before a special New Year. But she soon, very unexpectedly, finds herself in the depths of the Essex countryside looking after a...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Bored at work and nursing a broken heart, a thirty something R.N. leaves her prestigious job at a Houston medical center to work at a military hospital in Saudi Arabia in 1978. She arrives in a land struggling to...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Susanna Moore’s novel is set in Hawaii whose shimmering beauty and meloncholy traditions are at once seductive and dangerously hard to leave. Or so they prove for Clio, a thirteen year-old runaway who is raised by her eccentric aunt...
- Location(s): Canberra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“Jez is seventeen and lives with her alcoholic single mum in in a government rental in Canberra’s outer-suburbs, with little money or future prospects. As well as suffering from terminal boredom, Jez has got epic First World Problems: where...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Dr Baylie Walker loves her job. As an Emergency Medical Technician, she gets to spend her days skiing through the mountains and saving lives. A secluded and quiet life is just what she needs… Until delectable Dr Kyle Campbell...
- Location(s): Arles
- Genre(s): Short Stories
A chance encounter leads to an appreciation of the spontaneous and passing friendship of strangers in this evocative short story from one of New Zealand’s finest writers.David Wilson takes a trip around Europe after the death of his wife....
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