20th Century
South of the Border
Ireland 1942. Matt Duggan, fresh out of college, starts his first post as a teacher at the boys’ school…
Follow Me
If you enjoy family sagas layered with secrets and betrayal, stories which contain a host of entangled relationships and that…
Vienna Triangle
Vienna Triangle is not a mathematical puzzle but a complex human one. The novel opens in 1968 with Helene…
Blood Money
Blood Money is set in America during the Wall Street crash of 1929. Joe Quinn is a young detective…
The Great Lover
Editors' choice
The island of Tahiti holds a fascination for troubled souls. Gauguin lived there in the 1890s. So too, in…
East of the Sun
The start of this novel, set in 1928, finds Viva Hollaway, a young woman in her mid-twenties, trying to…
The German Woman
The German woman of the title is an English woman, Kate Zweig, a trained nurse married to a German surgeon,…
The Turtle Catcher
It opens with a shocking scene in 1920s Minnesota, in which the title character, Lester Sutter, a mentally handicapped…
Pictures at an Exhibition
A young man’s attempts to please a father he perceives as disparaging and indifferent form the core of this…
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