- Location(s): The Pennines
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
When Callum and his friends find Iona on Callum’s farm they try to chase her back into the village. But Iona runs from them up into the hills. It is late and dark and snow lies in the mountain...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Sky of Red Poppies begins with a casual friendship between two schoolgirls coming of age in a politically divided 1960’s Iran under rule of the Shah. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence...
- Location(s): Marrakech, France
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Present
Sky is devastated when she finds that her husband is in love with someone else, even more that it is her oldest friend Nick. She has lost the two most important men in her life and can’t ever trust...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1660s / 1939
1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette’s efforts to save him...
- Location(s): Canberra
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Kate and Harriet are best friends, growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s. As daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Horror
- Era(s): 1970s to present
Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open....
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): early 2000s
‘There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.’ Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating =...
- Location(s): Czech Republic
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Book 2 Prague, Czech Republic Thirty years ago a young woman was brutally slaughtered in her home. The police charged and eventually hanged a suspect in what appeared to be an open and shut case. But when a retired...
- Location(s): Dresden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centring...
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