- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid...
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. ‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal....
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1947
Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God – or...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The Feast of Love is a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined A Midsummer Night’s Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A deftly written novel brimming with magical realist touches, The Feline Plague tells the story of Ira, a Slovenian child who discovers early the cruelty of the adult world—particularly the mistreatment of animals. Ira struggles to reconcile her life...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2021/22
‘A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting’ – Emma Donoghue ‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be’ – The Times At dusk on a November evening in...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist – a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a...
- Location(s): Wexford
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): contemporary
A young detective ruffles a few feathers in a south coast Irish town When Detective Inspector Vikki Kirkby took the fall for a senior colleague’s mistake, she didn’t anticipate being sent from Dublin to the rural backwater of Wexford...
- Location(s): Norwegian Fjords
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
How would you spend your last day? And whom would you spend it with? Ferryman Nils Vik chooses to head out onto the fjord, as he has for many years. Today, the 18th of November, his trip is different....
- Location(s): St Ives, River Hayle
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First World War
Can Hester help her family escape desperate poverty and fulfil her dreams? 1908: Hester always loved her mother best, her father had always been a hard man to like, spending more time (and money) in the local than with...
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