Narrative theme: Sense of place

'In the top flight of crime writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHTHE CHILLING NEW SUSPENSE THRILLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELSIn the dead of winter, even brothers become strangers.

THE GRIPPING ESPIONAGE THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNER RJ ELLORY'This tense, atmospheric, totally believable thriller harks back to the golden age of espionage but is also about how well we really know our friends' THE SUN* * * * *The mission was supposed to be simple.

'A fantastic whodunnit' HEAT MAGAZINE 'Sensational' CRIME MONTHLY'This is not the usual story of vulnerable women in jeopardy .

'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.

THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED AMAZON PRIME'S BALLARD AND BOSCH A CRIME BURIED FOR YEARS.

THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME'S BOSCH AND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYERSOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET.

We all keep secrets.

Lila Nova never imagined her desires could prove so dangerous.

'THRILLING.

On a journey from the Jersey Shore to the Pacific Ocean the driver crosses an America twisted beyond all recognition, pursued by ghosts of his traumatic past, and by the police, who have discovered the horrifying secrets of his basement.

The year is 1895, Jaffa.

Fielding Montanna might be dead, but doesn't know it.

This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between.

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street.

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war.

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed.

It's the '90s and Dot, Saul and Owen are living together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene - shoplifting, dole-scrounging, swapping drugs, clothes and beds.

After failing to get into medical school, Ollie Cross takes a job as a paramedic in Harlem.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago.

Winter, 1860.

Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power.

It is January, 1914 and Jonathan Crane returns home from his travels with a new American bride, former Coney Island showgirl Beatrice.

Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money.

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes.

John Cheever s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.

Panoramic, sweeping, monumental, haunting: a story of four families which spans the centuries of Russia from Edward Rutherford, the author of Paris, London and New York.

Hull Fair, October 2007.

A grand, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day.

'There's seven ways to kill a cat.

* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter'Atmospheric .

Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation.

'The stand-out read of the summer.

William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West.

Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own.

'A wonderful, rich and humane novel.

Colin.

In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "e;filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra"e;, stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be "e;globally sad"e;, but "e;locally glad"e;.

Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s, Matteo leaves home to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India.

Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself.

Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York.

Adri n Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Lima s wealthiest neighbourhoods.

Readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will devour this gripping novel about love and marriage - and the ties that bind us - from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope.

Joanna Trollope has the priceless gift of drawing characters so clearly, and cleanly, that within half a dozen pages, you feel you have known them all your life - and The Rector's Wife is no exception.

_________________________A sweeping, epic novel of the greatest city in the world.

NOW A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIESWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel Hilary Mantel'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end.

Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix.

Caught at the crossroads of Art and Murder New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers is widely acclaimed as a master of atmospheric romantic suspense.

Against the peaceful night sky, a barn burns.

Home, heart and family.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - CandisEmily Springer decides to leave Leavenworth, Washington, to spend Christmas with her daughter in Boston.