- Location(s): Gran Canaria
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Whether you’re visiting Gran Canaria courtesy of picking up a last-minute bargain break or planning to relocate there, Going Local in Gran Canaria is the book for you. Covering everything from places to see on your holiday to property...
- Location(s): Manchester, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book opens at the 2004 Olympic Games with Zoe about to race for gold in the Women’s Sprint Cycling event. Three GB cyclists, Kate, Jack and Zoe who go back years. Kate and Zoe are rivals. This is...
- Location(s): East Africa, London, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
When Philip Hennessey is thrown out of army intelligence after evidence is fabricated against him, his ex-wife’s school friend asks him to investigate the sudden death of her father, who she thinks has been murdered. Philip soon discovers a...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
A trip to Brazil should be fun, right? Well, it’s certainly exciting, as Tim and his dog Grk zip through the streets of Rio at high speed after the notorious Pelotti gang. Then their plane crashes in the jungle,...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The story of Biafra’s struggle to establish an independent nation. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for...
- Location(s): Chengdu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Newly graduated photography student Lori Maddox spends the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Jo and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler,...
- Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1596
TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet,...
Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Evie Fuller is quite simply fed up. Single, unemployed and rapidly approaching her thirtieth birthday, she finds London life is weighing heavy. When a month of free language lessons offers an escape route, she heads to Madrid for sun-soaked...
Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie travel home on the busy Metro. The train is stopped unexpectedly, and Jessie sees that one woman doesn’t leave with the other passengers: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. A...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Norwegian expatriate Jakob Odergaard rules his successful furniture corporation with a ruthlessness and egotism that draws comment even in the merciless cut and thrust of the Hong Kong business world. His baleful influence warps the lives of all around...










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