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Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight

Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight
  • Author(s): Nick Earls, Rebecca Sparrow
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Two weeks in the life of Joel Hedges and Cat Davis… Joel would prefer to get through his final year of high school without Cat Davis or his mother’s faux Spanish boyfriend and just hang out with his best-friend...

Johannesburg

Johannesburg
  • Author(s): Fiona Melrose
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 6 December 2013

6 December 2013. Johannesburg. Gin has returned home from New York to throw a party for her mother’s eightieth birthday; a few blocks away, at the Residence, Nelson Mandela’s family prepare to announce Tata’s death… So begins Johannesburg, Fiona...

John Crow’s Devil

John Crow’s Devil
  • Author(s): Marolon James
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1957

In the village of Gibbeah where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two...

John Diamond

John Diamond
  • Author(s): Leon Garfield
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian era

‘My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!’ What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night....

John Dollar

John Dollar
  • Author(s): Marianne Wiggins
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1917

Charlotte Lewes, a young Briton newly widowed by the Great War, departs for colonial Burma in 1917 to escape the ruins of her life. As a schoolteacher in Rangoon she is rejuvenated by the sensuous Oriental climate, and she...

John of John

John of John
  • Author(s): Douglas Stuart
  • Location(s): Isle of Harris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where...

Johnnie Quiet

Johnnie Quiet
  • Author(s): Iain Sykes
  • Location(s): Stornoway
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

A mysterious stranger, Johnnie, arrives on the Hebridean island of Lewis in 1963 and saves Calum, a 17 year old schoolboy, from drowning. He is very reticent about his background but the boy’s mother gives him lodgings as a...

Johnno

Johnno
  • Author(s): David Malouf
  • Location(s): Brisbane
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s-50s

Johnno is written in the first person past tense and the narrator is only ever known by the nickname “Dante”. Johnno is heavily autobiographical. The novel is centred upon the friendship between Dante and a schoolmate known as “Johnno”...

Joker in the Pack

Joker in the Pack
  • Author(s): Graham Bishop
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Crime

When British Cabinet Minister David Raffo asks to see the file the British Secret Service MI5 kept on him when he was a student radical in late 1960s Britain, he receives threatening emails signed by The Joker. The closer...

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
  • Author(s): Susanna Clarke
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of...

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