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A gothic literary mystery set in 1920s Edinburgh, Hazardous Spirits whisks the reader away to a world of seances and spiritualism.

Edinburgh, 1923.Evelyn Hazard is a young Scottish woman living a comfortable and unremarkable middle-class life until her quiet existence is shattered when her staid, reliable husband Robert suddenly announces that he can communicate with the dead.As the couple are pulled into the spiritualist movement that emerged following the mass deaths caused by the First World War and the Spanish Flu, dark secrets from Evelyn's past threaten to surface.F...

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Now in paperback, a hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy usIsabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular. Her best friend, Bridget, keeps quietly to the fringes of their Connecticut Catholic school, watching everything and everyone, but most especially Isabella.In 1957, when the girls graduate, they land coveted spots at the Acc...

A beguiling whirlwind of love and obsession' Elle _______________________________________________It is summer, 1956, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative Connecticut town, Isabella is a breath of fresh air. She is worldly, alluring and brazen: an enigma.When they receive an offer to study at the Academy in Italy, Bridget is thrilled. This is her ticket to Europe and - better still - a chance to spend nine w...

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The Virgin Suicides meets Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley, this unputdownable and lush novel had me entranced' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti_______________________________________________It is summer, 1956, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative Connecticut town, Isabella is a breath of fresh air. She is worldly, alluring and brazen: an enigma.When they receive an offer to study at the Academy in ...

A hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us."I was utterly captivated, from first page to last." --Anton DiSclafani, New York Times bestselling author of The After PartyIsabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular. Her best friend, Bridget, keeps quietly to the fringes of their Connecticut Catholic school, watching everything and...

A missionary and his wife move to a South Pacific island intending to spread the word of God, unknowing that a descent into fundamentalism, paranoia and madness is on the cards. Authentic in its descriptions following Salam's time in Vanuatu.

Mission House was not built for three people. Especially when one of them won't stop humming. When Bea Hanlon follows her preacher husband Max to a remote island in the Pacific, she soon sees that their mission will bring anything but salvation. For Advent Island is a place beyond the reaches of even her most fitful imaginings. It's not just the rats and the hordes of mosquitos and the weevils in the powdered milk. Past the confines of their s...