- Location(s): London, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things are suddenly a...
- 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 Hilo Hustle (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 2)
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Hawaiian private eye Noelani Lee is more comfortable catching philandering husbands in the act than solving murders, but when the body of her archrival washes up on a beach in her hometown of Hilo, the police immediately treat her...
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?...
- 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...
- 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...
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