Harvill Secker

The Second Murderer

By Denise Mina - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The 1940s in a sweltering Los Angeles. The city is full of bottle-blonde femme fatales, actors who never made it, and men looking ...Read Review

Loot

By Tania James - Published 2023

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The word that does justice to the British Raj’s plunder in India had to be borrowed: “Loot,” as Tania James has explained ...Read Review

The Ascent

By Stefan Hertmans - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

This novel is part of the more recent trend towards what is called autofiction, in which writers incorporate elements of their own lives ...Read Review

My Father’s House (The Rome Escape Line Trilogy, 1)

By Joseph O’Connor - Published 2023

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A black Daimler races through the war-torn streets of Rome for a hospital on a dark December night—sleet and rain, car swerving, ...Read Review

Pandora

By Susan Stokes-Chapman - Published 2022

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Set during the cold wet year of 1799, in the Dickensian milieu of a struggling London shop of antiquities, this story’s protagonists are ...Read Review

Two Storm Wood

By Philip Gray - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

The Great War continues to be a fertile source of fiction for writers, even over 100 years after the cessation of hostilities. This is ...Read Review

The Shadows of Men (Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries)

By Abir Mukherjee - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1920s Calcutta can be a perilous place. Muslim and Hindu tensions are running high, and the city is a tinderbox awaiting a match. ...Read Review

China Room

By Sunjeev Sahota - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

Trauma and endurance form the complex legacy passed on by a young woman, trapped in a loveless marriage in Punjab in 1929, to her ...Read Review

Civilisations

By Laurent Binet - Published 2021

Genres:

Alternate History

The book opens in AD 1000. Freydis Eriksdottir, Erik the Red’s daughter, leads a band of Viking warriors who travel as far as ...Read Review

The Autumn of the Ace

By Louis de Bernières - Published 2020

Genres:

Saga

Daniel Pitt served his country as an RAF fighter pilot in the First World War and a spy for the Special Operations Executive ...Read Review

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