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Walking Home

Walking Home
  • Author(s): Simon Armitage
  • Location(s): The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2010

In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He...

Warrior King

Warrior King
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
  • Era(s): 1820s

A BATTLE FOR HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMY South Africa, 1820 When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy....

We Are The Brennans

We Are The Brennans
  • Author(s): Tracey Lange
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some secrets you keep from your family. And some secrets you keep for your family. When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk-driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride...

We Shall Inherit The Wind

We Shall Inherit The Wind
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen, Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he’s made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust...

Weeping Waters

Weeping Waters
  • Author(s): Karin Brynard
  • Location(s): Bushmanland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered...

West With The Night

West With The Night
  • Author(s): Beryl Markham
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s,

WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham — aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s....

What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You

What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
  • Author(s): Sharma Taylor
  • Location(s): Kingston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to...

What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier’s Story

What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier’s Story
  • Author(s): Emily Chappell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Emily Chappell never meant to be a cycle courier. She planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her legs. She thought it’d be a useful stopgap while searching for a ‘real’ job. Today, six years on,...

What happens in Ireland

What happens in Ireland
  • Author(s): Whitney K-E
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Have you ever wondered what happens in Ireland? When Australian, Kate Barrow, meets a handsome Irishman in a Dublin bar, she has no idea that he is about to turn her world upside-down and inside-out. In Ireland to take...

What Happens in the Alps

What Happens in the Alps
  • Author(s): T A Williams
  • Location(s): Valle d'Aosta
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A sparkling romantic comedy guaranteed to have you dreaming of finding love amidst the snow-covered mountains

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