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The Hidden Light of Objects

The Hidden Light of Objects
  • Author(s): Mai Al-Nakib
  • Location(s): Kuwait
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

For fans of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore. A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the West....

The Hidden Palace

The Hidden Palace
  • Author(s): Dinah Jefferies
  • Location(s): Malta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

A rebellious daughter 1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer’s job in the bohemian clubs...

The Hidden Storyteller

The Hidden Storyteller
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in war-torn Germany. The war is over. But there are still secrets to be found amidst the ashes . . . Hamburg, 1946 The war is over,...

The Hidden Village

The Hidden Village
  • Author(s): Imogen Matthews
  • Location(s): The Veluwe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War 2

Wartime Holland. Who can you trust? Deep in the Veluwe woods lies a secret that frustrates the Germans. Convinced that Jews are hiding close by they can find no proof. The secret is Berkenhout, a purpose-built village of huts...

The Hidden Ways

The Hidden Ways
  • Author(s): Alastair Moffat
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern?

In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland – its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads – in a bid to understand how...

The Hidden Years

The Hidden Years
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): B0BQ4QM6H9

When talented musician Gray Robinson persuades Belle to abandon her university studies and follow him to Silverwood, home to an artistic community on the Cornish coast, Belle happily agrees even though they’ve only just met. She knows she is...

The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place
  • Author(s): Corrie Ten Boom
  • Location(s): Haarlem
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place
  • Author(s): Trezza Azzopardi
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2000 ‘Fans of Kate Atkinson and Andrea Ashworth will love this. Read it and weep.’ Mirror This brilliant first novel is set in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay in Cardiff where the author...

The High Season

The High Season
  • Author(s): Judy Blundell
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, Ruthie, her still-adored ex-husband, Mike, and the couple’s sullen fifteen-year-old daughter, Jem, are packing up the last bits of their household in preparation for the yearly arrival of...

The Highland Falcon Thief

The Highland Falcon Thief
  • Location(s): London, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children

Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things are suddenly a...

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