The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
- Location(s): Senegal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The subject of intense admiration – and not a little shock, when it was first published – “”The Abandoned Baobab”” has consistently captivated readers ever since. The book has been translated into numerous languages and was chosen by “”QBR...
- Location(s): Dieppe
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Will Ella ever find what she’s looking for? Voluntary nurse Ella is haunted by the soldiers’ cries she hears on the battlefields of Dieppe. But that’s not the only thing that haunts her. When her dear friend Jim breaks...
- Location(s): Abersoch, Snowdonia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Keep your enemies close and your family closer… At his beachside mansion, with his large family and beautiful wife, Jack Rush celebrated his stepdaughter’s wedding: an extravagant, happy day. But that night, the movie producer is found in a...
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A classic from beloved author Eva Ibbotson – now with a brand-new cover from Jamie Littler. How do you smuggle a family of yetis from Tibet to England? When Agatha Farlingham is kidnapped by a yeti on a mountain...
- Location(s): London, Auckland, Norfolk, Wye Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
Manchester, 1867: Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary....
- Location(s): Bruges
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Medieval
Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Secrets, rumours, and dangerous liaisons – at an elite New England boarding school, they come with the territory. It’s move-in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends reuniting, selfies uploading, and cars unloading, shocking news...
- Location(s): Hamburg
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city’s red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible...
- Location(s): Europe, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In New York City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected and powerful literary agents in the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn hours. This manuscript – printed out, hand-delivered, totally anonymous –...
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