- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): timeless
The first of Lauren St John’s heartwarming White Giraffe series, featuring the adventures of a young orphan girl and a magical white giraffe in exotic Africa. When she is eleven years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live...
- Location(s): Penwith
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1954
In a valley steeped in legend lies an abandoned house where Edens may be lost, found and remade… The White Valley in the far west of Cornwall cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea. The house above...
- Location(s): Malta
- Genre(s): Paranormal
- Era(s): Early 1900s, and modern times
An Australian doctor and his wife try to establish a B & B in a dilapidated villa near a fishing village in Malta. The house’s unfortunate history, and a young woman’s restless spirit, make the project difficult to manage....
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1990s
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife. The local police focus on a determined stalker who’s suddenly nowhere to be found,...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption. Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world’s oppressed and forgotten. When not...
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The story begins with the arrival of triplets, born to a woman who has given birth three times previously, and buried each child shortly thereafter. This time the delivery goes well. That same night a family of five suffocates...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1666
Shortlisted for the Historical Association Young Quills Award 2021. London, 1666. After the sudden death of her father, thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hopper and her mother must take over THE WHITE PHOENIX – the family bookshop in the shadow of St...
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
In 1838, James Brooke arrived in Sarawak with a schooner and less than thirty men. He came to trade, but ended up ruling the country. ‘The White Rajah’ tells his story. From Amazon: When charismatic adventurer James Brooke travels to...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
THE WHITE SHADOWS, the forlorn child widows in Banaras, Brinda and Debi, fight a valiant battle against the acrimonious oddities of the society they are ostracised from and their own desires. Sia and Uday visit Banaras, the most ancient...
- Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Deserted by his parents, a young boy finds himself alone in the often grotesque world or relatives who do not want to raise him. As daily events become more and more intolerable, the boy clings to the legends and...
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