- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Natasha (Tasha) Graham is a quiet and lonely museum assistant, when her glamorous childhood best-friend sweeps back into her life. Celeste Walker is everything Tasha is not; popular, wealthy and confident, but she also has a mysterious twin brother,...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The bestselling Kindred Spirits series continues… Along Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile, royalty and commoners – living and dead – mingle amongst the museums, cafés and former royal residences. From Castle Hill to Abbey Strand, there is far more going...
Kindred Spirits: Tower of London
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary
A King, three Queens, a handful of nobles and a host of former courtiers… In the Tower of London, the dead outnumber the living, with the likes of Tudor Queens Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard rubbing shoulders with one...
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
- Location(s): Africa, Central Asia, Europe
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Palaeolithic
In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Egyptian
Hatshepsut was the only daughter of Thutmose and his Great Royal Wife, and carried the King Right in her person. She was trained to govern, and loved her land and people above all other things. But custom and the...
- Location(s): The Himalayas, China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, former Children’s Laureate and multi-award winner. This is a fresh reissue of a much-loved story with a beautiful new cover. Escaping from China as the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung embark on...
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy has the sweetness and quirkiness of The No. 1 Ladies’...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Horror
- Era(s): Contemporary
Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings. But his idyll – and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot – is shattered when local drug dealers force him into...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. When Armand Gamache receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse outside of Three Pines, the former...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Thirteen-year-old William Sheppard stabs his abusive father and is sent to the Swope Ranch Boys Reformatory, setting off a string of events that ultimately leads to a horrifying end in the Colorado mountains. Along the way, he befriends three...
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