- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese children, born...
- Location(s): Porto Cervo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set on the glamorous Italian island, Anita Hughes’s Emerald Coast is a touching and humorous story about marriage and the difficulty of finding love and happiness at the same time. Lily Bristol arrives at a luxurious resort in Sardinia...
- Location(s): North Uist
- Era(s): Modern
Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1983 and present day
You can always go home. But you can never go back . . . Summer 1983: Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared....
- Location(s): Kent, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
Barbara Copperthwaite writing as Barbara Havelocke You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to...
- Location(s): South Tyrol / Trentino Alto Adige
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
40-year-old Eva receives an unexpected message from Calabria, Italy. Vito is ill and would like to see her one more time. A retired police officer, he was stationed in South Tyrol during the 1960s, troubled years of tension and...
- Location(s): Krakow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Even the Crows Say Kraków Alina sits in a cafe, in a large, old-fashioned chair, and wishes she could be somewhere – anywhere – else. Apple Vapours A young man who can’t stay out of trouble inherits a small...
- Location(s): Mexico, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
University student Matt Pine has just received devastating news. Nearly his entire family have been found dead while holidaying in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI aren’t convinced – and they won’t tell...
- Location(s): London, Malta
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Winner of the 2017 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War –...
- Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1986 / present day
On 26th April 1986, reactor four exploded at the factory in Pripyat, Chernobyl. At the same time teenager Afia Bello vanished from her home without a trace. The damage from the nuclear fallout is examined over the following weeks,...
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