- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
A raging storm slashes across. Water is everywhere The wild ponies and the people must battle for their lives. In the midst of the storm, Misty-the famous mare of Chincoteague-is about to give birth. Paul and Maureen are frantic...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Maybe we love people because they won’t let us know them.’ A summer’s evening in Manhattan. Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore – can undo the heat’s...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1990s
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo’s protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust...
- Location(s): Seychelles
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Present
Bev and Carol are back and looking for a new adventure! This time, they fly off to the Seychelles to teach students of the National Youth Service. They are provided with a beautiful house on Mahé and commute to...
Strange as This Weather Has Been
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Set in present day West Virginia, Ann Pancake’s debut novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, tells the story of a coal mining family— a couple and their four children— living through the latest mining boom and dealing with...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn’t the right guy for her. He’s caviar and champagne; she’s takeout Chinese pot stickers. He’s an uptight Republican lawyer; she was raised in a commune. He wants to get ahead in...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2067
“Totally gripping, recommend it highly, I could not put this novel down.” Tony Meadows “I was hooked from the moment I read the opening paragraphs of this thriller” M J Fhay “A brilliantly crafted thriller set in a cleverly...
- Location(s): County Tipperary
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At the mid-point of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She’s been here once before – but while the room hasn’t changed, she is a different person now. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 19th century
From the queen of historical fiction, a thrilling, deliciously creepy story that is sure to freeze your blood . . . They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. ‘A tale to freeze the blood,’ was the only rule....
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