- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 70AD onwards
From the hilarious, celebrated cartoonist Gary Northfield – author of The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! – comes a brand-new illustrated chapter book series set in Roman times! From a smelly watering hole deep in the heart of the...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1983
Priyanthi Silva is born in Sri Lanka into a peaceful, loving Sinhalese family, but into a turbulent country dogged by religious and political tensions. She and her brother Hemantha grow up in Araliya Gardens, a tropical paradise full of...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
For private investigator Sam Falconer, Oxford seems to be a place of sin and secrets. And now she’s come back home to set up a branch of her detective agency, she’s about to turn up even more trouble, which...
- Location(s): Utah
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
River guide Madeline Kruse has been on the run from a family secret most of her life, escaping on whitewater and into wilderness canyons. She’s as different from the alfalfa farmer she meets in Junction as big rapids are...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 60 years ago
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her...
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, South America
- Genre(s): Children, Short Stories
- Era(s): Ice Age to modern day
From the author of Inca-tastic Tales comes a new collection of short stories: Jungle-tastic Tales! Are you brave enough to join Yacumama, the Amazon’s most humongous and powerful snake, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip? You are? Fab! Then grab your...
Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains
- Location(s): Japan, Mount Everest
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Junko Tabei, the first female climber to summit Mount Everest. Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
Jupiter’s Travels -Ted Simon’s astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan McGregor’s Long Way Round In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): contemporary
It started as a one night stand…now it’s a full blown kilt trip… Neelu came to Scotland with one goal: avoid drama. Now, she’s stuck on a road trip through the highlands with her estranged father and Jacob, her...
- Location(s): England, Lanzarote
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Escape from reality comes in patent-leather Prada kneeboots Dawn Ellis needs to escape from her painfully dull existence. Her unemployed husband spends all day complaining about life, moping around, or fixing lawnmowers on her kitchen table. The local writing...
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