- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 18th Century
Eilidh Campbell returns to her Scottish roots from America with one main aim: to discover the identity of her real father. But her mother’s past in Inverclyde is a mystery with family secrets, a book of Robert Burns’ poems...
The Hills of Tuscany: A New Home in an Old Land
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Warm sun and rolling hills, olive oil with thick slices of country bread, stone walls three feet thick, porcini picked that day, and bottles of earth-flavored wines are but some of the ingredients in Mate’s memoirs of Tuscany. This...
The Hippo-Chronos: AKA the Antikythera Key
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, North Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): modern, historical
In the picturesque seaside village of Tynemouth, on the north-east coast of England,?Roman Wall country, 14 year old schoolboy Alex struggles to come to terms with the first anniversary of the disappearance of his archaeologist dad. When Alex, his...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends?...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and...
- Location(s): London, Godstone, Hackney
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2021 (2019/2020)
What would you do if you found your name on a hitlist? And your late husband put it there? When Marianne’s husband Greg is knocked off his bike and killed on the way to work, she must unpick the...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Banned for many years by the Franco regime, Cela’s masterpiece presents a panoramic view of the degradation and suffering of the lower-middle class in post-Civil War Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of...
- Location(s): Hoboken
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1970s
When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family’s Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta—a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own.
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
Two women, two very different lives – one perfect solution to a Christmas holiday fraught with potential pitfalls. The Holiday Swap. Florence Cortes has the perfect life – an apartment in the trendiest district of Barcelona, a job she...
- Location(s): Damascus
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2010
At the Arab Spring’s hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent’s decision...
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