- Location(s): Paris, Zurich
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The first in the Bourne trilogy. (From the back cover): He has no past. And he may not have a future. All he knows is that he was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence...
- Location(s): North Wales
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Ben Robson can’t remember a time before he had the Box, with its three mischief-making demon occupants: smelly, cantankerous Orff, manically destructive Kartofel and fat, slobbering greedy-guts Djinn. When Ben was a kid it was fun, and he enjoyed...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
MOTHER. LIAR. MURDERER? When Genevieve’s seven-year-old son is found bleeding to death in his own home, she’s horrified when the police turn to her for answers. There’s no evidence of a break-in, and parts of Genevieve’s story don’t seem...
The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2014
This is a powerful and deeply moving novel chronicling the Syrian War through the eyes of 14 year old Adam who has Asperger Syndrome. It has been adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play. ‘I have the urge to...
- Location(s): County Donegal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s-1990s
In 1973 on the west coast of Ireland, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Who is he? Where is he from? What changes will he bring? Ambrose, a local fisherman, is far more interested in who he...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbour set his stepmother alight. Or so Lindiwe Bishop believes, though eighteen months later the charges against Ian McKenzie are dropped and he returns home, full of charm and swagger....
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1258 and 2017
In the Year 1258, Baghdad, the capital of the great Abbasid Caliphate, fell to the Moguls. Within hours, the city of enlightenment was swallowed up by darkness, another society becoming a victim of hatred and greed. The mighty Tigris...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- Location(s): Malawi
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2002
When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm – they could no longer afford his fees. This is his story of how...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
‘It’s time,’ I say. ‘For … It. Me. You. Us. The bench. The zoo. The question. Why?’ The only thing that Elvis Crampton Lucas knows about where he’s from is that he was found on the bench at a...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From the author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant comes another brilliant escapade for 9+ readers! A thrilling adventure set in fictional Sri Lanka, jam-packed with peril and kidnap and a huge blue whale! Razi, a local fisherboy,...
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