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The Glovemaker’s Daughter

The Glovemaker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1666 and 2014

1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith....

The Glovemaker’s War

The Glovemaker’s War
  • Author(s): Katherine Williams
  • Location(s): Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943 and contemporary

Heartbreaking and heartwarming, this tale of three generations of women tells of bravery, secrets, lies, family conflict and discovery: the consequences of one courageous woman’s decision to join the Special Operations Executive in World War Two. In 1943, when...

The Glutton

The Glutton
  • Author(s): A K Blakemore
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1790s

The 18th century is drawing to a close, and unrest grips France. Tarare has been born into a life of slender means, but when a sudden act of violence ignites in him a ferocious appetite, his extraordinary abilities to...

The Go-Between

The Go-Between
  • Author(s): L P Hartley
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900

An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham Hall – a world of privilege far removed from his own – for the scorchingly hot summer of 1900 appears innocuous, but Leo soon finds himself drawn...

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
  • Author(s): Osman Yousefzada
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s and 1990s

A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks. The adult world is seen through...

The God of All Small Boys

The God of All Small Boys
  • Author(s): Joseph Lamb
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1917, WW1

James is sent away to live with his mill-town relatives in this nostalgic, coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of Dundee during WW1. Some summers were made for growing up…Dundee, 1917. When his father goes to fight in the...

The God of Good Looks

The God of Good Looks
  • Author(s): Breanne Mc Ivor
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A joyously satisfying will-they-won’t-they love story about a young woman finding her feet and forging her own destiny, set against the backdrop of the Trinidadian beauty industry. Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian high...

The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods
  • Author(s): Liz Moore
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the family deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their...

The Godchild

The Godchild
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

When seventeen-year-old Alicia turns up on her godmother’s doorstep and asks if she can stay, Carina can’t say no to the godchild she hasn’t seen in over a decade. In a way, Alicia is the daughter she always wanted....

The Goddess and the Thief

The Goddess and the Thief
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): India, Windsor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A beguiling novel of Victorian theft and obsession from the bestselling author of THE SOMNAMBULIST. Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their...

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