When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed -...

She's Running Out of Time

Alex Prevost - kidnapped, beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden...

1871. Pete Ferguson is a wanted man. An army deserter, hunted for murder in Oregon, not to mention theft and arson in...

Marlene Wegener is on the run.

She has stolen something from her husband, something priceless, irreplaceable.

But she...

The summary execution of three dealers - one murdered in full view of a police surveillance team - is the signal for hell to be...

How Many Lies Can She Get Away With? A gripping domestic thriller of secrets, lies, extramarital affairs and murder.

Is it...

Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the snow. But...

The Dog Islands are a small, isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean - so called because together, when viewed from...

Brussels. A hive of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. No wonder the European Commission is keen to...

It begins with a slap in the face.

Out walking his St Bernard, Tony Carcano is confronted by a girl on a motorbike who shows...

Behind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Metal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative...

At first it's the lie that hurts.

A voicemail from her husband tells Sara he's arrived at the holiday cabin. Then a call from...

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.
The security guard adores babies. Perhaps...

It is 1852, and in Sweden's far north, deep in the Arctic Circle, charismatic preacher and Revivalist Lars Levi L stadius...

Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and...

"We owe you our lives, Sergeant, but you are our worst nightmare . . ."

Burma, 1852. Sergeant Arthur Bowman, a sergeant in the...

At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper...

In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Pericourt. His daughter, Madeleine,...

Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his...

The journey had taken on its own momentum, it had become an autonomous, independent entity, she was searching for love, and was...

A polyphonic novel following the fortunes and failures of the inhabitants of a small Basque mining town over the course of forty...

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is...

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a...

The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest...

Norway, 1880. Winter is hard in Butangen, a village secluded at the end of a valley. The lake has frozen, and for months the...

Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded...

When an Israeli tech exec disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion....

Refugee Camps In Africa Are Swelling

And Europe has closed its borders. The refugees have no future, no hope, and no money to...

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch...

Nothing could please a chef more than a chance to learn the secrets of a Baron's castle kitchen. Having travelled the length and...