- Location(s): Scotland, London, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Never look back…Treason is deadly While in the Lake District, journalist Emmeline Kirby and jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon overhear a man attempting to hire international assassin Hugh Carstairs, a MI5 agent who went rogue. They race back to...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Trying to leave painful memories behind her, Chloe Ellefson is making a fresh start. She’s the new collections curator at Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor ethnic museum showcasing 1870s settlement life. On her first day, Chloe meets with an...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Although she was orphaned at birth, Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata, India. But she is troubled by the silence that...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas’s fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world...
- Location(s): Jordan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The fragile peace is holding. Behind the scenes, the Israelis are competing for dwindling water resources as Jordan and Palestine face drought. Daoud Dajani has the solution to Jordan’s water problems and is bidding against the British for the...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQ+
- Era(s): 19th Century
The classic novel about a teenage girl’s infatuation with her headmistress at a boarding school in nineteenth-century Paris A Penguin Classic A groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love, Olivia–based loosely on the author’s own life–was first published...
Olivia and Prince Oliver’s Penguins
- Location(s): The Falkland Islands
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1960s
There’s a king penguin dynasty happening at the Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary on the Falkland Islands. What do you think will happen to Princess Olivia, Olly and Olivette, and to Piper-the-Penguin? What about the grown-ups, Olivia and Harry? What...