- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A funny, heartwarming and page-turning novel about a British-Asian mother and daughter, who clash over the plans for the bride’s Big Day. Noor has no interest in getting married (much to the aunties’ distress). Growing up she saw first-hand...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year’s Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are...
- Location(s): Russia, Central Asia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35...
The Big Sleep (Phillip Marlowe)
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood’s two wild, devil-may-care...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Present day
Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry shaping India in a period of breakneck change – from controversial prime minister Narendra Modi, victor...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ailsa’s mum is ill, not the first time, so they spend the summer with her aunt and uncle. Aunt Bertha, Uncle Nod and their dog Moxie live on an island off the coast, by a beautiful fishing village surrounded...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 19th century
Emmett Farmer is a binder’s apprentice. His job is to hand-craft beautiful books and, within each, to capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If you have something you want to forget, or a secret to hide, he can...
- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1911
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman’s spellbinding novel, is set in Newfoundland in 1911. Fabian Vas’s story, told with disarming simplicity and grace, takes place against a spare and profoundly beautiful landscape where the most powerful of emotions stand out...
- Location(s): Malawi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
This is a modern rendition in written form, of the popular Malawian folktale, ‘The Orphan and the Slave’, passed down through oral tradition. The traditional version, included alongside this modern work of fiction, tells of a boy who is...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
China, 1941. With Japan’s declaration of war on the Allies, Elspeth Kent’s future changes forever. When soldiers take control of the missionary school where she teaches, comfortable security is replaced by rationing, uncertainty and fear. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has...
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