- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
An adventure story set in the swamplands of Louisiana about sisters, rising sea-levels and saving the environment, perfect for fans of Katherine Rundell and Lauren St John. Our land is sinking. It’s disappearing into the water. And no one...
- Location(s): Nigeria, Winston-Salem
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement… Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
It’s been five years since the original turtle lady, old Miss Lovie Rutledge, passed away, but her legacy lives on with some special women, especially Toy and her daughter, young Little Lovie. Toy Sooner kept her graveside vow to...
Swimming Lessons and other stories from Firozsha Baag
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980s
- Location(s): Ilfracombe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tawrie Gunn feels stuck. She’s spent her whole life in the same seaside town with her beloved Nana and grief-stricken mum, all of them still reeling in different ways from the tragic loss of Tawrie’s dad at sea. Desperate...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Swimming with Sharks is the scintillating new novel by acclaimed author Anna Legat, and the first in the DI Gillian Marsh series. When fortysomething Nicola Eagles goes on the holiday of a lifetime to the Maldives, she never dreams...
- Location(s): Swindon
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): present day
A mountain unexpectedly appears in the Marlborough Downs, overshadowing the city of Swindon. It arrives quietly, straddling the boundary between Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. It looks as if it has always been there. But it hasn’t. No one knows...
- Location(s): The Gambia, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
You take a lot of things for granted in your daily life that can make living abroad a challenging, absurd, hilarious, and life-changing adventure. What do you mean I can’t do laundry on Sunday? Why do I have to...
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