Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
- Location(s): Morocco, Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. A novel set in Zimbabwe about hope – and its power to heal a family, a friendship or even a nation. For fifteen-year-old Shamiso, struggling with grief and bewilderment following her father’s...
Hopeful Hearts at the Cornish Cove
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 2020s
A gorgeous story about community, friendship and having the courage to start over, perfect for fans of Carole Matthews, Milly Johnson and Lucy Dillon – A perfect new start in Cornwall… Meredith’s life is at a standstill. She’s stuck...
- Location(s): London, Manchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present Day
A light-hearted take on a serious topic! The spring Ewan had in his step before heading to London to look for work quickly disappears when his belongings tumble down a drain and he hits his head. Disorientated and befuddled,...
- Location(s): Paris, Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel. Anticipating the age of the...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Fiction
Kadie Kingston is a young woman in flight and in pursuit. For reasons too awful to think about, she’s running from Milenko, the glorious Croatian she is due to marry. And she’s chasing her best friend who has fled...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
A fantastically funny adventure from an award-winning author. Horace Fox is being followed. Deadly hit-snake Zigzag McVitie is after him. Horace has been left a swish den in London but evil Badger Burnhard wants it. Can Horace avoid the...
- Location(s): Kentucky, New York City (NYC), Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current back to 1850
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky,...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
Horse Bite is the story of Dave and his efforts to find a bit of permanence in the balance of the things we create and the things we do to sustain ourselves. His journey jumps between morning pit stops...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th century
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes the novel that became the basis for the film Hud, starring Paul Newman. In classic Western style Larry McMurtry illustrates the timeless conflict between the modernity and the Old West...
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