- Location(s): London, Oxfordshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th, 19th century, modern
London, 1662: There was something the Winter Queen needed to tell him. She fought for the strength to speak. ‘The crystal mirror is a danger. It must be destroyed – ‘ He replied instantly. ‘It will’. Ashdown, Oxfordshire, present...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
In 2015, Sagarmatha frowned. Tectonic plates moved. A deadly earthquake devastated Nepal. In the wake of disaster, House of Snow brings together over 50 excerpts of fiction and non-fiction celebrating the breathtaking landscapes and rich cultural heritage of this...
- Location(s): Vietnam, Queens
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century, 21st century
An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl’ s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The seat of the Trelawney family for over 800 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): early 21st century
Emma Hunt has spent fifteen years raising Theo and Jacob on her own, and has created what she sees to be a stable and happy life for them, despite the challenges of Jacob’s Asperger’s syndrome. Jacob’s behaviour has sometimes...
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
- Location(s): Fallujah
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2004
“Blood flows over my left hand and I lose my grip on his hair. His head snaps back against the floor. In an instant, his fists are pummeling me. I rock from his counterblows. He lands one on my...
Houseboat Hermit of the Everglades
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
- Era(s): 2010s
Houseboat Hermit of the Everglades is an adventure novel, set in Everglades National Park, along Florida’s Gulf Coast, up to Cedar Keys and Suwannee National Wildlife Refuges. Entanglement with nefarious activities in the Everglades forges an unlikely friendship between...
- Location(s): Rochester
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Lincoln Menner is finding out just how hard it is to be a woman. When his wife Jo was offered her dream job, Linc supported her wholeheartedly, leaving his thriving landscape business in Los Angeles and moving to Rochester,...
- Location(s): The Rocky Mountains
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this debut novel, a young woman in the Rocky Mountains, separated from the ancestral rhythms of her home in Scotland, turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection. With shades of Olga Tokarczuk, Ali Smith, and Rachel...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying...
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