- Location(s): Swaziland (Eswatini)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mandla is a young Swazi boy training to be a sangoma. After completing the quest for his muti bag, he is initiated into the mysteries of Nkosatana, the Princess of Heaven, and becomes a heaven-herd by catching a bird...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th century
What do you do when it feels impossible to live the life that is expected of you? What do you do when you long for something that you can hardly name? Berta is a twelve-year-old girl growing up on...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When half-sisters Lauren, Flora, and Kat are unexpectedly summoned to the Cornish house where they spent their childhood summers, it’s the first time they’ve dared return. Because the wild cliffs and windswept beaches hide a twenty-year-old secret. The truth...
- Location(s): Manhattan, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1880s/1930s
1932. Emily Blackwood, adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale. On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
There is an ancient Turkish tradition that promises the person who frees a small bird a place in paradise. Three boys set up a business of catching birds to enable people to free them, but city people are now...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century, mid 20th century
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an...
- Location(s): Tajikistan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1920s
A vivid history of the birth of a nation. When the Russian Revolution broke out in October 1917, much of Central Asia was still ruled by autonomous rulers such as the Emir of Bukhara and the Khan of Khiva....
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Horror, Fiction
- Era(s): Early20th Century
The Birthday Boys is one of Beryl Bainbridge’s most acclaimed novels, telling the story of Scott’s doomed expedition through the voices of five men on the voyage. As Scott, Petty Officer Taff Evans, ship’s doctor Dr Edward Wilson, Lieutenant...
- Location(s): Palm Springs
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie de Florent-Stinson was a trailer-park teen about to turn sixteen. But a night of birthday celebration doesn’t go exactly as planned and descends into a night she’ll never be able to...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Mallory Dawson Crime Thrillers Book 1) Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations. Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote Welsh...
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