The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th Century
Rather than be ‘sivilized’ by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn – the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk – sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on...
The Adventures of Phatty & Payaso
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Children
Phatty the cat loves nothing more than spending his days balanced atop his favorite chair gazing out his windows at Central Park below. Everything is simply fan-tabby-lous until one day when the meanest hawk in the park lands on...
- Location(s): Sherwood Forest, Nottingham
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with...
The Adventures of Roobie & Radley and The Christmas campervan Rescue
- Location(s): West Highlands
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern day set in West Highlands of Scotland
It’s almost Christmas in Westie Green and the snowflakes are falling. Nestled deep within the Highlands of Scotland lives an enchanting community of West Highland Terriers, the Westie Hutters. Roobie & Radley and their pet piglet Disco live at...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1997
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy – or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is back in power, and Seierstad...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 1960s
In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port...
- Location(s): East Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Kurt Krausmann, a recently bereaved Frankfurt doctor, is persuaded to join his friend, wealthy benefactor Hans Makkenroth, on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. The journey helps him begin to confront his loss, but soon misfortune strikes again: the...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do...
- Location(s): Tunisia
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
It looked like an ordinary group of tourists – a mix of easy-going and critical, quiet and talkative, enthusiastic and bored. But antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is leading this tour through the souks, mosques and ruins of Tunisia so...
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