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Sabina

Sabina
  • Author(s): C De Melo
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century

15th century Florence, Italy: Sabina Rossi’s forced marriage comes to an abrupt end during the infamous Pazzi Conspiracy. Wealthy beyond her dreams, the young widow is free to pursue her passions—with the utmost discretion, of course. The patriarchal society...

The Silent Killer

The Silent Killer
  • Author(s): Trevor Wood
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to hide it from his peers and the people he’s...

The Sky Beneath Us

The Sky Beneath Us
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1927 /2020

1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and...

The Cruel Way

The Cruel Way
  • Author(s): Ella K Maillart
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Central Asia, Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939

In 1939, adventurer and writer Ella Maillart set off on an epic drive from Geneva to Kabul, accompanied by journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who later became an antifascist and lesbian icon. The two women travelled partly to escape...

The Rhino Conspiracy

The Rhino Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hain
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the last decade over 6,000 rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Relentless poaching for their horns has led to a catastrophic fall in black rhino numbers. Meanwhile a corrupt South African government turns a blind eye to...

The Lion Conspiracy

The Lion Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hain
  • Location(s): Africa, England
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

#3 The Conspiracy Series Peter Hain’s latest thriller is grounded in real-life experience, and endorsed by global conservationists. From South Africa to Zanzibar, from Kenya to Britain, activists are battling to save lion prides, today more threatened by extinction...

The Elephant Conspiracy

The Elephant Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hain
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leading politician and anti-apartheid campaigner turns the spotlight on to Elephant poaching in South Africa. Gripping and pacey this is an epic tale of corruption, collusion and courage. Having thwarted murderous poachers in The Rhino Conspiracy, the Veteran, Thandi and...

The Descent

The Descent
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Africa, Australia, Bora Bora, Madagascar, Panama Canal
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Future
  • Era(s): Late 21st century

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events...

A Lesson in Cruelty

A Lesson in Cruelty
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say you can’t always get what you want. But you can take it. Anna wants a fresh start. She doesn’t believe she deserves it, but after three years behind bars she has finally paid her dues. Most of...

Blue Sisters

Blue Sisters
  • Author(s): Coco Mellors
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...

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