- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1968
In One Crazy Summer, eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California....
- Location(s): Kent
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Regency
Lucy has survived hard times and by 1825 she believes she has it all but she doesn’t realize how fragile happiness can be. Into her life comes a charming artist intent on knowing her better. But why? And why...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Marty told the reporters that she saw it happen. That when the gunman entered, she saw her mother die trying to protect her pupils. That’s the version of Day One Marty wishes was true. But strange inconsistencies in her...
One Day I Will Write About This Place
- Location(s): Kenya, Nairobi
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother’s beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist. After all, life isn’t a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one freezing day, she sees a man she knows instantly is...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s/ 1950s
Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate...
One Day on Our Blue Planet: In the Antarctic
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this curious penguin chick. In the latest volume of Ella Bailey’s picture book exploration of the daily lives of baby animals, we head to the...
One Day on Our Blue Planet: In the Outback
- Location(s): The Outback
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
If you love cute baby animals, come spend the day in the Australian outback with this adorable and bouncy kangaroo joey. From Ella Bailey’s acclaimed series of beautiful and educational picture books comes another tale of how one young...
One Day on Our Blue Planet: In the Rainforest
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this curious young spider monkey. Follow this adventurous spider monkey exploring the bustling rainforest of South America with his mother by his side in the...
One Day on Our Blue Planet: In the Savannah
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this curious lion cub. Now in paperback, this is the first in the acclaimed series of children’s books focused on the way our young animal...
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