- 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): East Anglia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1963
Jack Curtis is one of life’s natural survivors. Arriving at his new boarding school, in rural East Anglia, in 1963, Jack’s expecting all the pampering of his colonial childhood in Africa and Asia to continue. But he’s in for...
- 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,...
- 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...
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