- Location(s): Hoy Island, Orkney Islands
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
When everyone knows your name, every case is personal . . . Meet DI Erling Flett in The High Island, the heart-racing crime thriller that you won’t be able to put down. From Lin Anderson, author of the acclaimed...
- Location(s): Long Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, Ruthie, her still-adored ex-husband, Mike, and the couple’s sullen fifteen-year-old daughter, Jem, are packing up the last bits of their household in preparation for the yearly arrival of...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 18th Century
Eilidh Campbell returns to her Scottish roots from America with one main aim: to discover the identity of her real father. But her mother’s past in Inverclyde is a mystery with family secrets, a book of Robert Burns’ poems...
The Hikikomori: The Girl Who Couldn’t Go Outside
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hikikomori are Japanese recluses. Right now in Japan over a million hikikomori are hiding in their bedrooms, hiding from their past and future. Hiding from the disappointment that having dreams can bring. Miko is a hikikomori. As Miko’s dreams...
- Location(s): Shimla (Simla)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author To the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, romance is in the air. For the mysterious Mrs Forester, there...
The Hills of Tuscany: A New Home in an Old Land
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Warm sun and rolling hills, olive oil with thick slices of country bread, stone walls three feet thick, porcini picked that day, and bottles of earth-flavored wines are but some of the ingredients in Mate’s memoirs of Tuscany. This...
The Hippo-Chronos: AKA the Antikythera Key
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, North Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): modern, historical
In the picturesque seaside village of Tynemouth, on the north-east coast of England,?Roman Wall country, 14 year old schoolboy Alex struggles to come to terms with the first anniversary of the disappearance of his archaeologist dad. When Alex, his...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends?...










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