- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1990s, 1992
Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel is a unflinching exploration of race, class, and violence as well as the importance of being true to yourself. Los Angeles, 1992 Ashley Bennett and her...
- Location(s): Isle of Lewis
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY’S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY. A MURDER The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh –...
- Location(s): Isle of Lewis
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY’S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY. A MURDER The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh –...
- Location(s): Derby, Krakow, Warsaw
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Three generations of a Polish immigrant family are living in Derby in 1964 when the grandmother decides she wants to return to her homeland to make peace with her relatives and await death. Her war-traumatised daughter remains in Derby...
The Black Moon: A Novel of Cornwall 1794-1795 (Poldark Book 5)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1790s
Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth’s eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne,...
- Location(s): Tenerife
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1706
It is May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of a mighty volcano, which legend...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
A foreign correspondent traces the 4,000-mile plank-board boat journey he took with an inexperienced childhood friend along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea, a trip inspired by Alan Moorehead’s classic chronicles during which the author...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
From one of our most gifted writers on the natural world comes a stunning exploration of a unique landscape and the improbable and endangered animal that makes its home there. Rick Bass first made a name for himself as...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Paris, 1944 Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian...
- Location(s): Guinea, France
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1930s
The Black Terrorist is a fictional account built around the true, extraordinary, but little-known story of Addi BA. Addi BA was born in Guinea about 1916, brought to France in the late 1930s, and became a riflemen in the...
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