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The Heart Of A Dog

The Heart Of A Dog
  • Author(s): Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and...

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for...

The Heart’s Invisible Furies

The Heart’s Invisible Furies
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): Ireland, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s to the present day

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man’s life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery...

The Heartbeat Library

The Heartbeat Library
  • Author(s): Laura Imai Messina
  • Location(s): Teshima
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still...

The Hearts of Horses

The Hearts of Horses
  • Author(s): Molly Gloss
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1917

In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss’s doorstep. She’s looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war in Europe, and...

The Heartsick Diaspora

The Heartsick Diaspora
  • Author(s): Elaine Chiew
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in different cities around the world including Singapore, New York and London, Elaine Chiew’s award-winning stories travel into the heart of Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves. In the...

The Heat of Havana

The Heat of Havana
  • Author(s): John Swallow
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

The Heat of Havana finds Detective Jussi Alonen settled down in Rauma once again. However, little does he know that a thrilling new adventure awaits him, one which will not only reconnect him with an old flame but also...

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  • Author(s): James McBride
  • Location(s): Pottsdown, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1972

The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find...

The Heaven Shop

The Heaven Shop
  • Author(s): Deborah Ellis
  • Location(s): Malawi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Binti’s father is dying from Aids, a disease that nobody in their town in Malawi dares name aloud. As Binti and her brother and sister slowly begin to understand what this means, they begin to realise too that not...

The Heavens

The Heavens
  • Author(s): Sandra Newman
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1593 & 2000

New York, 2000 Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, the city glows. It is the first year without a war anywhere. A woman is president, and an air of camaraderie...

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