- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her...
- Location(s): Scotland, St Kilda
- Genre(s): Adventure, Children
- Era(s): 2018-2118
Life for Alice and the five other children living on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda was challenging enough, but when the strange C-Bean Mark 3 shows up and they discover only Alice can control it, their whole...
- Location(s): Caribbean, Kinsale, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1700s
1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; disguised as ‘Anthony’ to protect reputations, the mask suits Anne just fine. But, fixated on boats and the sea, she struggles to...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1970s
Seahorses By Ruth Khan Synopsis Seahorses is a retro exploration of falling in love, drinking tea, family and village life, and grief, set in an England that existed for a long, hot, perfect summer in the 70s. It is...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): Present day
A gripping contemporary ghost story set on the Suffolk coast. Evie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth in Toronto to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father’s summer home on...
- Location(s): Skegness
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Some bodies just won’t stay buried. When a client tells Sam Applewhite she’s seen ghosts in the nearby graveyard, Sam dismisses it as the ramblings of an old woman. She’s got bigger things to worry about — keeping on...
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
- Era(s): late 1960s
The X-Files meets Indiana Jones in Search for the Buried Bomber, the first in Xu Lei’s Dark Prospects series of thrillers steeped in archeological myths and government secrets. During China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution, the People’s Liberation Army dispatches an...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1820s
A moment’s foolish mistake costs sixteen-year old Nora her freedom and her family. Sentenced to transportation she has to grow up fast to survive prison, the long journey and then life as an assigned servant in Van Diemen’s Land...
- Location(s): Ghana, Accra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love and try to get by: an idealistic professor, a beautiful young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt...
Searching for Captain Wentworth
- Location(s): Bath, Lyme Regis
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary/Regency
When aspiring writer Sophie Elliot receives the keys to the family townhouse in Bath, it’s an invitation she can’t turn down, especially when she learns that she will be living next door to the house where Jane Austen lived....
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