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Takeout Sushi

Takeout Sushi
  • Author(s): Christopher Green
  • Location(s): Tokyo, London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness of everyday human interaction. In an innovative, fast-paced company, a man’s job comes under threat...

Talking at Night

Talking at Night
  • Author(s): Claire Daverley
  • Location(s): Montenegro, Norfolk, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another’s great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility...

That Girl

That Girl
  • Author(s): Kate Kerrigan
  • Location(s): Chelsea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

You can escape a place. But you can’t escape yourself. Hanna flees the scene of a terrible crime in her native Sligo. If she can just vanish, re-invent herself under a new name, perhaps the police won’t catch up...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
  • Author(s): Christy Lefteri
  • Location(s): Greece, England, Syria, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo – until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by...

The Bees

The Bees
  • Author(s): Laline Paull
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015 Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive. Born into the lowest class...

The Betrayal of Thomas True

The Betrayal of Thomas True
  • Author(s): A J West
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Early 1700s

The only sin is betrayal… It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London’s hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into...

The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11)

The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11)
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s a fresh start for the Met’s oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Their first case involves two teenagers who see a dead man rising from his grave in a London park. And if that’s not alarming enough,...

The Burning

The Burning
  • Author(s): Devin Asante
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

London 1666. Young Agnes Wilmore arrives in the bustling city from the small of Castle Combe to pursue her dreams. Robert Hubert, a romantic sociopath, takes advantage of the girl on her first night in town, and from that...

The Chase

The Chase
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Espionage
  • Era(s): Current

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace. She’s been assigned to track down a man wanted by the Russians and bring him into MI5. It should be easy. But the Russians have eyes everywhere. Emma knows...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

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