- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1800s
Captain Wookcott, his young wife Ester, their baby, and the 6 step children. The life of a family in the 1800s.
- Location(s): North Africa, Sahara
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War’. Lawrence’s younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the...
- Location(s): Balkans
- Genre(s): Biography, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 1900s
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK’s most popular writer on geopolitics The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It...
- Location(s): Africa, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Shortlisted for 2015 Not the Booker Prize REDEMPTION IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY – or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight. She is running away; from her failed...
She Seduced Me : A Love Affair with Rome
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present and Ancient Rome
“I resisted, but she drew me back. I stayed away, but she beckoned me. I distanced myself, but she haunted me. I even rejected her but she did not abandon me…” She Seduced Me is that rare book in...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he’s condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted. When...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ice and Crime Book 2 The darker the secret, the harder to bury it. Compelling reading – Lilja Sigurðardóttir As a police team is called in to investigate a woman’s suicide at the Hólmsheiði prison outside Reykjavík, to detective...
Silenced Girls (Agent Tori Hunter #1)
- Location(s): Minnesota, Iowa, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Guilt has kept FBI Agent Tori Hunter away from her home in Manchester Bay, Minnesota for twenty years, ever since her twin sister disappeared on the Fourth of July, when the girls should have been together. But when she...
- Location(s): Basel
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the...
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