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The Hippo-Chronos: AKA the Antikythera Key

The Hippo-Chronos: AKA the Antikythera Key
  • Author(s): Matt Ritson
  • 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...

The Hired Girl

The Hired Girl
  • Author(s): Laura Amy Schlitz
  • 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?...

The History of Blood

The History of Blood
  • Author(s): Paul Mendelson
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and...

The Hitchcock Hotel

The Hitchcock Hotel
  • Author(s): Stephanie Wrobel
  • Location(s): The White Mountains
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

And who better to become founder, owner and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a remote, sprawling Victorian house sitting atop a hill in the beautiful White Mountains, New England. There, guests can find movie props and memorabilia in every...

The Hive

The Hive
  • Author(s): Camilo José Cela
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Banned for many years by the Franco regime, Cela’s masterpiece presents a panoramic view of the degradation and suffering of the lower-middle class in post-Civil War Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of...

The Hobart Hotel

The Hobart Hotel
  • Author(s): Mary-Lou Stephens
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s / 1970s

December 1939: The grand opening of Australia’s most glamorous and talked about hotel, the Wrest Point Riviera. The equally glamorous Sabine Winters, recently arrived in Hobart from the Continent, anticipates a safe port from the storm that rages in...

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
  • Author(s): Daniel Pinkwater
  • Location(s): Hoboken
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1970s

When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family’s Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta—a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own.

The Holiday Swap

The Holiday Swap
  • Author(s): Zara Stoneley
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Two women, two very different lives – one perfect solution to a Christmas holiday fraught with potential pitfalls. The Holiday Swap. Florence Cortes has the perfect life – an apartment in the trendiest district of Barcelona, a job she...

The Hollow Man

The Hollow Man
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Vale of White Horse
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After being summoned to a crime scene late one Friday afternoon, Detective Mark Turpin arrives to find the body of a man, his face obscured by a plastic sheet wrapped around his head. When the victim’s final moments are...

The Hollywood Assistant

The Hollywood Assistant
  • Author(s): May Cobb
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. Cassidy Foster is heartbroken,...

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