Quercus
Minds of Winter
The enticing jacket synopsis: 1845, John Franklin’s expedition to navigate the Northwest Passage results in the disappearance of all hands…
The Guardian Angel
Set amidst a background of idyllic northern countryside, themes such as love, forgiveness and hatred are being explored in Elizabeth…
Spindrift
Late 1904, Tasmania. Christy announces to her family that she is planning a visit to her Scottish homeland on the…
The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid: Lennox 5
Glasgow in the late 1950s. Lennox is a private investigator, of Canadian birth, who works on the margins of legality…
The Hourglass
Tracy Rees follows last year’s wonderful historical novel Florence Grace with a more contemporary tale set in London and the…
Nobody’s Child
It is Christmastime, and two young sisters are ripped from their travelling life when their mother dies and their father…
Under a Pole Star
Editors' choice
This book has the makings of a five-star screen weepy in the vein of M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between…
Florence Grace
Orphaned Florrie Buckley lives in rural poverty in Cornwall. Life is hard, but she loves the moors and is happy…
The Black Friar
Following in the forbidding footsteps of The Seeker, winner of the CWA 2015 Historical Dagger, The Black Friar sees Damian…
All Their Minds in Tandem
October 1879, New Georgetown, West Virginia. A man called “The Maker” arrives in this small town. He has a gift:…
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