The past threatens the love between Arturo and Dan, which is already up against it due to the difference in their backgrounds…can love win out?
Category Archives: 21st Century Fiction
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
A story of women – as friends, as wives, as young people – and how we can find strength in each other
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
A unique book which is made up of detection mixed with a surrealist dreamscape of carnivals and the eccentric people who form them
No Matter What by Kevin Coll
A thriller which spans many things – love, terrorism, secrets, promises, espionage – all propelled by a meeting that might never happen
Symphony of Lies by Maria Monday
A light thriller and mystery where Emma, our heroine, is invited to a will reading but the legacy on offer is less prize and more challenge
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Meet Thursday Next, literary detective and a female to be reckoned with, intelligent, resourceful and poised
When the Darkness Swallowed the Sun by Robin Newbold
Dark, tense, violent, the backpacker’s mecca of Thailand broods blackly as Dan, a reporter, investigates two brutal killings on an island
Alice in Mullah Land by Amir H. Taheri
A thought-provoking book for our times, dressed up in a parody of a classic story, acting allegorically to show the fight against oppression
A Rock and a Hard Place by J.D. Kirk
D.C.I. Jack Logan faces more than the challenge of a police investigation in this great thriller
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Wonderful storytelling about an orphaned girl, a trip to Paris and a secret world of rooftops and their inhabitants
