- Location(s): French Basque Country
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): present time
When Chloe’s grandfather dies, she promises to scatter his ashes over a lake in the French Basque mountains where he was born. When she gets there, with Pop inside a chocolate tin, things start to go wrong. The mysterious...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy’s extraordinary new novel. Being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn and in Moscow someone may have tried...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): various centuries
In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and the Winter King to...
- Location(s): Horton Plains
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): 21st Century
Four close friends begin a search for the mysterious ‘beast’ in a dark and spooky wilderness, but little do they know that they’ll discover much more about themselves on this beautifully bleak young adult adventure. Love, danger, and the...
The Beast of Buckingham Palace
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 2120, Future
Fly into a fiery and fantastical future with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams, in an epic adventure of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy who must save the world Illustrated by the artistic genius...
- Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 1920s
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald’s impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author’s lyrical prose, here is the story of...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing....
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set–a failed debutante’s new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into Palm Beach’s inner circle, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, fashion designer Lilly...
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Fiction
A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the its first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in love for the first and only...
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