- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1980s
On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Alice Mistlethwaite is shipped off to boarding school in Scotland it’s nothing like she imagines. Run by the mysterious Major, there are no punishments and the students are more likely to be taught about body painting or extreme...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes takes a fresh perspective on an ancient story, reimagining in gripping prose how the Oedipus and Antigone stories would look if the oft-overlooked female characters took centre stage. Retelling the myth to...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Children, In Translation
- Era(s): early 20th century
Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, “dipping in the pot” at Christmastime with Lisa and Karl, and join Britta and Anna who know the best way to go about “nutting” for the New Year....
- Location(s): Croatia, Yugoslavia (former)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1941 / 1991
Croatia, 1941. When the Nazis invade Yugoslavia, nurse Ilona’s world is torn apart. Her Serbian husband Jovan has joined the resistance, her best friend Misa has vanished and children are disappearing from their homes. Working alongside the brave Diana...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
Athena and Dexter Fox are happy. They love each other. They are friends. They live with their young sons in a sparsely furnished house near the Merri Creek: its walls cracking, its floors sloping and its doors hanging loosely...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A beguiling and disarming novel about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor. Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins, lives on a sprawling estate, cut off...
- Location(s): Italy, Naples
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy—written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours—about poor children from the south sent to live with...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
A man is found dead after a house fire. Detective Fiona Moore suspects foul play. It’s not the charred remains of Tony Phelan that really trouble Dublin law enforcement or the traces of accelerant, so much as the bullet...
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