Thousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts,
crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts.
This is the...

Fleeing her husband's explosive temper, Miriam has brought her two daughters, Joan and Mya, back to Memphis, to the home her...

An all-girls boarding school in a hilly corner of Connecticut, Atwater is a haven for progressive thinking and feminist...

When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is...

The five of them - Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and Polly - met at university, their lives full of lazy afternoons and late nights....

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.

A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a...

Jon Swift is in trouble.

His journalism career is in freefall.

He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's...

Reunions. Recriminations. Reckonings.

Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. Ryan Cusack is...

A Man Called Ove meets Inspector Montalbano, Auntie Poldi leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers.

Wine and murder -...

In Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death...

The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world.

There are stories about those who...

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker - a young married...

That was the start of it. A terrible business altogether. Oh, it was all kept off the news, for the sake of the talks and the...

Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to...

Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her...

1931. Maisie Dobbs new case takes her investigation into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson, theft and...

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured...

London, 1929. Joseph Waite is a man who knows what he wants. With his Havana cigars and Savile Row suits, he is one of Britain's...

'I'll come back for you later. I promise.'

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French...

Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and...

An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling summer of 1348, using the...

Can a prison free those who enter?

Nisida, moored like a boat in the Mediterranean, is a small island nestled between Capri...

'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply...

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside...

It is seven years since the Sweats wiped out most of the world's population. But for those who survived the outbreak, life has...

After the blizzard of a century ago, it was weeks before anyone got in or out. By that time, what had happened there, what the...

Brighton, 1950s. When Daisy got married, she knew nothing of a police wife's struggles - the way secrecy and suspicion seep into...

Maisie Dobbs takes on her first investigation in 1920s London.

Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a...

Sometimes getting it wrong is the only way to get it right…

Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever...

Maisie Dobbs returns with her most gripping case yet.

Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses...