- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 19th century
Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness… A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there’s another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy’s twin brother, Ray, died in a...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Dive beneath the waves with this spell-binding adventure of friendship, forgiveness and bravery, set on the shores of Papua New Guinea, perfect for fans of Katherine Rundell and Eva Ibbotson. “I want to be able to call the sharks....
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
6 My Books Browse ▾ Community ▾ Book details The Shark Clubby Ann Kidd Taylor (Goodreads Author) 3.67 3,606 ratings 614 reviews it was amazing Your Rating (Clear) Read Write a review One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
The captivating, feminist YA thriller. The snow is falling thick and fast now. Snow in Iceland is dangerous. Hannah Eiríksdóttir has been banished from her home in London to a place of eternal punishment for the wicked. No, not...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
The first question this remarkable new tale of mayhem and misunderstanding asks is: Who is singing the Sharpshooter Blues?Is it Morgan, the teenage trick-shot artist, who stops by The William Tell Grocery in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, one day to...
- Location(s): Kashmir, Mumbai (Bombay), Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1996-2015
All the women in Nafeesa’s family have been imprisoned, assassinated, scarred or exiled. Yes, every single one. Is it any wonder, then, that the surviving men in her family have kept those disturbing facts from her? But now Nafeesa...
The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer
- Location(s): Palmyra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
The work of a modern-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime. This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of consciencean atheist mistaken for a radical Islamistwho...
The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca
- Location(s): Mecca
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1st half 20th century
Hamza Bogary describes a bygone way of life that has now irreversibly disappeared. He speaks of life in Mecca before the advent of oil. Only partly autobiographical, the memoir is nevertheless rich in remembered detail based on Bogary’s early...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2
Threatened with Internment for the duration of World War II, two young German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, sought refuge in the Namib Desert and lived a Robinson Crusoe existence for two and a half years. How they...
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