- Location(s): Charlottesville, Tennessee
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s - mid 80s
The story about a family, its tragedies, mistakes and endings: its magical moments, strengths and fresh beginnings and secrets and growth – it is told through several voices.
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Crime, Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern
On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking...
- Location(s): Ireland, United States (USA), World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Katie is a ditzy cabin attendant who reveals her innermost thoughts in a stream of consciousness. Naturally, she falls for a passenger in first class….
- Location(s): Bournemouth, The West Country
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Early 2000s / 2017
Everyone has their secrets. But this one could destroy your marriage. When Anna Blackwell opens an email from an unknown sender, the shocking image attached shatters her perfect world. A woman has been killed. And Anna knows who did...
- Location(s): Arabia, Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Mirage tells the story of a world in which Arabia is the superpower and the United States a third world country. In this reverse world Christian Fundamentalists fly into the Twin Towers in Baghdad. The story twists and turns...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
A gripping story about what one strong, sexy woman really wants, and gets. This is simply a completely convincing tale, really well told in pitch-perfect prose, of a young Englishwoman – spirited, bold, sexually liberated and ruthless – who...
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Sobriety and moderation are alien concepts to the men in Dimmy’s family. Useless in all other respects, his three uncles have a rare talent for drinking, a flair for violence, and an unwavering commitment to the pub. And his...
- Location(s): London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Early 1920s
Eighty years ago, at the end of May 1921, Katherine Mansfield came to Switzerland, to live at the Chalet des Sapins in Montana (now Crans-Montana) in Switzerland. She was 32 and seriously ill with tuberculosis (possibly caught, according to...
- Location(s): Hampshire, Dulwich
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
New beginnings can be deadly . . . Kate and Matt Crowther are finally moving out of London, in search of a better life for their young family. Trade Cottage seems to be the house of their dreams –...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020s
With words come power. But do you speak out or shut up? Everywhere Sara Javed goes – online or outside – everyone is shouting about something. Couldn’t they all just shut up? One day she takes her own advice....
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