- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger – his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails. With a week on the road together,...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper’s The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family...
- Location(s): New Zealand
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led...
We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2011
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of...
- Location(s): Ardnish, Canada, French Alps
- Era(s): WW2 and after
After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form...
- Location(s): Southampton
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Ellen Parr has always been sure she never wanted children. But when she finds a young girl asleep and unclaimed at the back of a bus fleeing the Blitz in Southampton, everything she once believed is overturned. As she...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now,...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 19th century
Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse. Bored and angry, Maggie and her younger sister Kate start to...
- Location(s): Massachusetts, Danvers
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In the coastal town of Danvers, MA, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals — even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers....
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters – as well as the...
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