Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, Various
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the...
- Location(s): Banner, Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
On the hot, dry first Sunday of August, three generations of Granny Vaughn’s descendants gather at her home in the little town of Banner, Mississippi, to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. The celebrations take only two days, but many members...
- Location(s): Hartlepool
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dead body washes up in Hartlepool. The autopsy reveals he was murdered. Police officers trace the scene of crime to the south bank of the River Tees where night watchman, Alf, keeps watch over the entrance to an...
- Location(s): France, Nantes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A smart, obsessive debut novel about a young woman studying abroad who becomes caught up in a seductive French world and a complex web of love and lust. When thirty-year-old Brooke Thompson unexpectedly runs into a man from her...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
People don’t vanish without a reason… What happens when a married man with a teenage daughter learns he has another child? What if he travels to a foster home to retrieve his son, but on the return journey something...
Loss of Innocence (Martha’s Vineyard 2)
- Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, Modern
June, 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane – spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha’s Vineyard – life could not be safer, nor the future...
- Location(s): Plymouth, Exeter
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
HOW CAN YOU SOLVE A CRIME IF YOU CAN’T REMEMBER THE CLUES? There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to hospital in eight ambulances, but only seven vehicles arrive. Captain Harry Peterson is missing....
- Location(s): Chile
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary and Victorian
The discovery of a Victorian journal sets in motion a high-octane adventure fusing past, present and myth. When Evangeline comes across a Victorian plant hunter’s journal at Kew, it is the sign she’s been waiting for. Its author, Edwin...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
DI Wilkins #3 Oxford, city of rich and poor, where the homeless camp out in the shadows of the gorgeous buildings and monuments. A city of lost things – and buried crimes. At three o’clock in the morning, Emergency...
- Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently’ Helen Clapp is a physics professor at MIT. She doesn’t believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when...
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