First published in 1915, this was a big success in its day but I would have to concede that Buchan is now out of fashion, for a number of reasons that are easy to understand – but there may be a revival – who knows?

A modern reader would be struck by the ‘cast’ of this performance ...

This Swedish thriller grabs you on page one and just doesn't let up.

Working from a police station in Stockholm, a likeable detective is haunted by a cold case he attended 17 years before. When several current murders appear to link up to the cold case, DS Grens enlists some of his colleagues to help him solve the case.

Paul Cleave is one of NZ's top thriller writers - he has won the Ngaio Marsh award three times. His is his latest and he doesn't disappoint.

The son of a husband and wife crime-writing duo goes missing. Has he run away or has he been kidnapped? And if so, who is responsible?

This is the twenty-first book in the delightful series of No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.

It is set in Botswana, but the characters will feel familiar to us all. McCall Smith has a gift for putting his finger on the quirks of human nature and it is laugh-out-loud funny in places.

I really enjoyed this book. It is large print which I don't usually read.

Set in America.

Nicole, a Korean adopted child; Cindy, her long lost sister; Dan her husband.

This is a great first novel by a NZ author.

The action alternates between Australia, the Indian Ocean and the Seychelles.

Two beautiful sisters, mirror twins, are reunited.

With a gift voucher burning a hole in my pocket and two half-read tomes on my bedside table, I was on the hunt for something light and fantastical - this was it! A dream-like story that takes it's time, though at times, too much.

John Carreyrou is a French/American reporter and received the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award for the investigative reporting, culminating in this publication of this book. Theranos a start-up bio-tech company, headed by Elizabeth Holmes claimed to be developing high tech, blood testing technology that would revolutionise blood testing in third world countries as well as making blood testing through simple technology available at chemists.

As part of Britain’s’ mobility Anne Glenconner’s early life was spent at Holkham Hall in the company of the landed gentry and her royal relatives and friends. She was asked to be part of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the second, the links to the royals very much part of her long life.

The debutante season and her coming out did not result in the engagement and marriage that was expected so Anne was encouraged to learn the retail pottery trade allowing her the freedom to travel and interact with all sorts of people.

This is a debut novel by Delia Owens however as a retired wildlife biologist her background enables her to write with exquisite detail of the birdlife, sea life and marshes which are the fabric of this novel set in the Northern Carolina swampland.

The main character is Kya Clark called by the locals ‘Marsh Girl’ and she lives a solitary life but a rich life with the wildlife around her providing the essentials for food and nourishment.