Set in winter where our characters continuously get trapped in small wayside inns due to falling snow, this is a perfect read for dark nights.  The Duke of Salford, a man used to getting his own way, meets his match in Phoebe Marlow, a ‘country dab of a girl’ who...

A depressed librarian heads to India in the hopes of finding solace after the mothers-and-babies group at his library pushes him into early retirement. Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small...

Looking for a brilliantly immersive page-turner? Read on.  It’s 1634, and The Devil and the Dark Water begins on the island of Batavia, a Dutch trading colony, where the main characters are speedily introduced as they board a ship bound for Amsterdam. One of the many pleasing things about this...