- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Post 1947
In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent,...
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
September 1960. In the Spandauer forest Detectives Max Becker and Bastian Döhl, from the Berlin Kriminalpolizei, find a naked, tortured man tied to a tree. A cryptic message hangs from his neck. When another body appears, Max is sure...
Anna’s Dance: A Balkan Odyssey
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Balkans
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1968
It’s 1968. The world is in turmoil. So is twenty-thee-year-old Anna Rossi, who questions everything about her life, from her mostly Jewish heritage to her fear of intimacy. Summer in Europe with a childhood friend offers a perfect way...
- Location(s): Paris, Brighton
- Era(s): 20th Century
1911. Aged just fifteen, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown, until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal… 1997. Kendall’s romantic break in...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Col Vaughn de Vries Book 4 From the author of the acclaimed The First Rule of Survival, praised by Lee Child as ‘excellent and uncompromising’, comes Paul Mendelson’s explosive latest thriller. Apostle Lodge looks out over the ocean, an...
- Location(s): Thailand, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Alice is turning thirty and is stuck in a rut. Her friends are all coupling up and settling down, while she’s still working as a temp, trying (and failing) not to shag her terrible ex, getting thrown out of...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s
Norah Thornby can no longer afford to live in her grand family home in the centre of Silkhampton. Unless, perhaps, she can find a respectable lodger. But Nurse Lettie Quick is not nearly as respectable as she seems....
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Fiction
- Era(s): Various
A global journey inspired by writers from every continent Whether you’re a regular globe-trotter or an armchair traveller, these 80 works conjure up the spirit of place for locations on every continent. Sometimes the setting of a novel is...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Bestselling author and environmentalist Jonathan Drori follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg as he tells the stories of 80 magnificent trees from all over the globe. In Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori uses plant science...
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