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The Queen of Kentucky

The Queen of Kentucky
  • Author(s): Alecia Whitaker
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer’s daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She...

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The...

The Queen’s Fool

The Queen’s Fool
  • Author(s): Ally Sherrick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Tudor

A fantastic Tudor adventure from Historical Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. ‘A compulsive read … I love Ally’s writing, she really has a way of making history come alive!’ CELIA REES Cat Sparrow is on the road....

The Queen’s Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile

The Queen’s Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
  • Author(s): C W Gortner
  • Location(s): Castile y León
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1474

Isabella is barely a teenager when she becomes an unwitting pawn in a plot to dethrone her half brother, King Enrique. Suspected of treason and held captive, she treads a perilous path, torn between loyalties, until at age seventeen...

The Quickening

The Quickening
  • Author(s): Rhiannon Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
  • Era(s): Post war period

Country houses can be such spooky places and Rhiannon Ward who has written the Derbyshire crime novels shows us one with her new novel The Quickening. Her gothic novel is about Clewer Hall. It is the country house shutting...

The Quiet American

The Quiet American
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’....

The Quiet at the End of the World

The Quiet at the End of the World
  • Author(s): Lauren James
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Future

How far would you go to save those you love? Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing...

The Quiet Girl

The Quiet Girl
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kaspar Krone is a world-renowned circus clown, and a man in some deep trouble. Drowning in gambling debt and wanted for tax evasion, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve...

The Quiet Girls

The Quiet Girls
  • Author(s): J M Hewitt
  • Location(s): Pomona Island
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Carrie Flynn’s sister Hattie was kidnapped when they were both little girls. After the police failed to find the culprit, Carrie swore she would become a detective and solve the case herself. But the face of the man...

The Quiet Streets of Winslow

The Quiet Streets of Winslow
  • Author(s): Judy Troy
  • Location(s): Winslow AZ
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the murdered body of a young woman is found in a river wash in Black Canyon City, Arizona, Deputy Sheriff Sam Rush begins an investigation that leads deeper and deeper into the mystery of her death and the...

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