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Betrayal

Betrayal
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Honduras
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns. The new high-octane international thriller from David Gilman. Someone’s trying to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone. It has been many years since Dan...

Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea
  • Author(s): Melissa Bailey
  • Location(s): Inner Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Set on a tiny fictional island off the coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides. One summer’s day, Freya’s husband and son vanish at sea. A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper’s cottage on a remote...

Coffin Road

Coffin Road
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Harris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2012

A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does...

Crooked Heart

Crooked Heart
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): London, St Albans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family – is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge – thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money,...

Dear Child

Dear Child
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The No 1 International Bestseller – 250.000 copies sold in Germany – 5th bestselling paperback in Germany in 2019 A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their...

Deep Dirty Truth

Deep Dirty Truth
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A price on her head. A secret worth dying for. Just 48 hours to expose the truth… Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family back together, but her new-found happiness is shattered when she’s snatched by...

Displacement

Displacement
  • Author(s): Anne Stormont
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The search for resolution after the upheaval of loss. A journey full of insight, forgiveness and love. Divorce, the death of her soldier son and estrangement from her daughter, leave Hebridean crofter, Rachel Campbell, grief-stricken, lonely and lost. Forced...

Gomorrah

Gomorrah
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss (translator)
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano’s groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities,...

Her Mother’s Secret

Her Mother’s Secret
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Belle-Île-en-Mer, Sauzon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland – the magical island of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Southern Brittany – afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears...

How to be Brave

How to be Brave
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2

This is a novel about how stories bring magic to our lives. Natalie and Rose are transported to the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, to a lifeboat where an ancestor survived for fifty days. Natalie struggles when nine-year-old daughter Rose...

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