- Location(s): New Canaan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Nixon and ‘Nam, pet rocks and shag rugs, wife-swapping and party-hopping. Suburban New England, 1973, and the Hood family are about to wish they’d stayed home. Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, THE ICE STORM is an astonishing novel of the...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A haunting magical adventure about two sisters born 40,000 years apart, perfect for fans of Frostheart and The Wild Way Home. When Bela’s mother dies, she is summoned to deepest Siberia to stay with an uncle she’s never met....
The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon
- Location(s): Karachi, Lahore, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Zohaib, Misha and Nadia believed they would be in each other’s lives forever. As children they played, argued, teased and loved one another. Yet nothing could have prepared them for the tragic turn of events one fateful afternoon in...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Told by an author who believes in his people, The Idle Years is the story of the. fears, flights and returns of the individual in his struggle to find the truth as he matures into adulthood after a difficult...
- Location(s): Seville
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
A new psychological thriller in the Javier Falcon quartet, that includes THE HIDDEN ASSASSINS and The Blind Man of Seville. The sweltering city of Seville is still recovering from a shocking and unsolved terrorist attack but now a spectacular...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow...
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19t Century
James Poneke is a young Maori orphan, raised by missionaries, with a burning desire to travel and explore the world. When an English artist on a tour of New Zealand invites James to return home with him, the boy...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1980s
A moving, layered, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving...
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘For all the desert’s dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was to grind away at yourself until nothing was left. It was to aspire to the condition of sand.’ One third...
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