- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
When 12-year-old Krish finds out his mum is dying, he is desperate to give her more time to live. This leads to a deal with a devil-like creature to travel to another realm, Ilir, and collect the Myrthali –...
- Location(s): South Sudan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2004
The inspiring story of David Nyuol Vincent, a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars, and fifteen years in camps to find a new life in Australia. David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father,...
The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
- Location(s): Accrington
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s & 1980s
Graham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mills, now mainly for its football team. Armed with his generic Northern accent and a record collection including the...
- Location(s): Herat, Russia, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000
A powerful tale of a family in crisis, and a moving love letter to the NHS Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A mother speaks out against the fundamentalist leaders of her country. Meanwhile, her family’s watchful eyes never leave their beloved...
- Location(s): Val d'Isere
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
He loves you. He loves you not. Amy is fiercely independent, with a high-powered career, a flat of her own and tight-knit friendships. But as she approaches her thirtieth birthday, she can’t help but rue the one thing she...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Computer-whiz Audrey McCarthy feels most at home in a tech lab, surrounded by her fellow geeks. Once popular and fearless, she hasn’t been the same since her dad died. And her ex-best friend, gorgeous queen bee Blake Dawkins, has...
- Location(s): Biloxi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Sunday Times No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side....
- Location(s): Washington State
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an...
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
- Location(s): Odense, Aalborg, Nyborg
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1940s, Second World War, World War II
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation’s leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the...
- Location(s): England, France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
A moving and emotional family drama set between France and Britain from bestselling author, Mary Wood. They would fight for their country, at all costs . . . When Sibbie and Marjie arrive at RAF Digby, they are about...
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