- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. With the police in hot pursuit. Scarlett is dancing in the school talent show tomorrow. Nana, who Scarlett lives with since...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
The epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the nation’s favourite storyteller Michael Morpurgo. For Will and his mother, going to Indonesia isn’t just a holiday. It’s an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them –...
- Location(s): India, London
- Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
When Frank teams up with Spud, he thinks he’s got it made. But what he’s made is a deal with the Devil. ‘Dodgy’ Frank Kusy, born into poverty from immigrant parents, learns to live on his wits––first as an...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Dystopian
In near-future Shanghai, a group of teens have their world turned upside down when one of their own is kidnapped in this action-packed follow-up to the “positively chilling” (The New York Times) sci-fi thriller Want. Jason Zhou, his friends,...
- Location(s): West of Scotland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murder and a series of heists test Police Scotland (Detective Inspector Munro murder mysteries Book 13) Detectives are led up the garden path when a clever scam turns fatal. Down-on-his-luck businessman Tam McDonnell thinks he may have rescued...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
THIS IS NOT A ROMANCE: A twisted story of obsession and female desire, Rush explores the dark and toxic side of the world’s sexiest sport. * * * * His desire will consume her. And all she can do...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): 19th / 20th century
Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Russia
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Early twenty-first century
Roped into helping her socially inept émigré stepfather, Nikolai, escape the clutches of a blackmailer, performance poet and private investigator Jo Epstein enters a world where criminals enforce a 19th-century code of honor, threats arrive inside not-so-traditional Matryoshka (nesting)...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 1950s
‘An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story. Graceful, moving and unexpected’ – Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club ‘A tender and...
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