- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He’s pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful...
- Location(s): Seoul
- Genre(s): Children, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book. Accompanied by the constant, rumbling ba-dum ba-dum of...
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century
I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference – the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman’s life in near-death experiences. Insightful, inspirational, gorgeously written, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Funny and clever, with illustrations that are a feast for the eye. An instant classic – Sir Tim Smit KBE, co-founder of The Eden Project Enter the incredible world of plants to learn about the green machines of the...
I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
- Location(s): South Carolina, Charleston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 1950s onwards
Beginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Marietta’s mother dies, she heads to Charleston in search of her...
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
- Location(s): The Pennines, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
One of Waterstones Best Books to Look Forward to in 2021 The Bookseller’s Book of the Month A Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight “I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had...
- Location(s): London, Nottinghamshire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A complex game of cat and mouse in the streets of Nottingham ends in death. Young artist Mia Jackson is compelled to watch the posthumous video diaries of Jack Flood – controversial bad boy of the London art world...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall’s story of his childhood – a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders,...
I Can See My Country Clearly Now
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
I saw my country clearly like Neil Armstrong saw the earth in the cosmos on that first trip to the moon. PNG was caught like a butterfly in a spider’s web struggling to free itself from the claws of...
- Location(s): England, Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror – her husband of twenty-five years – collaborates with the enemy to save his family home. Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance, her...
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