- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Botswana, Mochudi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a fiery up-and-coming lawyer at the Bana Bantle Children’s Agency in Mochudi, Botswana, Naledi Chaba’s caseload is bulging with stories of rape and abuse. So when she takes on the case of a 15-year-old girl who has been...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): 2020
The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely. Across four seasons and a luminous series of poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes paint a...
- Location(s): Westminster
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
MURDER COMES TO LONDON’S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire’s playground offering sumptuous suites for the global...
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