- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940, 2000
On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international...
- Location(s): Ayrshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist. From birthdays to...
- Location(s): Québec, Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1967
Previously published as “Boundary” in hardback Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction 2014 Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs for Best French Crime Novel at the Quais du Polar 2017 Winner of the Prix du Conseil des...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW1 - mid 20th Century
The story takes place in Southern Australia, just after the First World War. Tom Sherbourne is a lighthouse keeper on a remote island way off the mainland. One shore leave he marries a local girl, Izzie, and she comes...
- Location(s): London
Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband’s affair. The visits – and the days between – lead George back into Sarah’s past...
- Location(s): Cambridgeshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Married couple Jack and Ali Gardiner move to a self-sufficient spiritual commune in the English Fens, desperate for fresh start. The local village is known for the witches who once resided there and Rosalind House, where the commune has...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Be careful what you wish for… Long ago, Andrew made a childhood wish, and kept it in a silver box. When it finally comes true, he wishes he hadn’t… Long ago, Ben made a promise and he had a...
The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Once upon a time in a crumbling London bookshop, Posy Morland spent her life lost in the pages of her favourite romantic novels. So when Bookend’s eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put...
- Location(s): The Cyclades, Paros
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, Alistair Haston heads off to Greece, where she is on holiday. Mugged on the harbourside in Paros, he is robbed of everything. So when Ricky a charming Aussie, shows up and offers Alistair a job...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
Two Basque gunmen on the run after a bomb attack find refuge in a hotel whose owner, Carlos, used to belong to their movement. With the World Cup in progress, the Polish football team is staying in the hotel....
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