- Location(s): Tenerife
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A collection of short stories that have Tenerife as the common link
Tennis Clubbed, Snubbed and Rubbity-Dub Dubbed
- Location(s): Yokohama
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Postmodern present
SET IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN … In historically rich Yokohama, the wicked shiver of the tennis snub pits David Adams against K: a puffed up, xenophobic tyrant who rules over the courts of a club that...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Will the four Heath children continue their family tradition and become tennis champions? The Heath kids—Nicky, David, and twins Jim and Susan—come from a long line of ace tennis players. Now their dad has decided it’s time to teach...
- Location(s): Scotland, Ayrshire
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
Detective Munro is on the back foot when a dangerous killer always seems to be one step ahead. Having been the victim of a hit and run accident, and despite being black and blue, DI Munro wastes no time...
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
A modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet. Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as...
- Location(s): Antarctica, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
The year is 1910, and two Antarctic explorers, Watts and Heywoud, are racing to the South Pole. Back in London, Viola, a photo-journalist, harbors love for them both. In Terra Nova, Henriette Lazaridis seamlessly ushers the reader back and forth between...
- Location(s): Symi, England, Florida, Greece, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 21C
There’s a big birthday looming. Clair tries hiding from it on the Aegean island of Symi, Greece. Inevitably it catches up with her. But so do a couple of possibilities, interesting, attractive ones…Encouraged, she departs the Greek idyll to...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator’s separation from her husband. The novel is full of light,...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hungary
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
WINNER OF THE BATH NOVEL AWARD Of everyone in her complicated family, Eva was closest to her grandfather: a charismatic painter – and a keeper of secrets. So when he dies, she’s hit by a greater loss – of...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1980s
With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we...
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