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The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
  • Author(s): Sue Lawrence
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1732

The wronged lady finally has her say… One of the strangest and most disturbing stories to have emerged from Scotland’s Jacobite past.’ The Times Edinburgh, January 1732. It’s the funeral of Rachel, wife of Lord Grange. Her death is...

The Unsinkable Greta James

The Unsinkable Greta James
  • Author(s): Jennifer E Smith
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just after the sudden death of her mother, indie musician Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing. Months later, Greta – still heartbroken and very much adrift – reluctantly agrees to...

The Untameable

The Untameable
  • Author(s): Guillermo Arriaga, Frank Wynne (Translator)
  • Location(s): Mexico, Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

Yukon, Canada’s far north. A young man tracks a wolf through the wilderness. The one his grandfather warned him about: “Of all the wolves you will see in your life, one alone will be your master.” In Mexico City,...

The Untelling

The Untelling
  • Author(s): Tayari Jones
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aria is no stranger to tragedy-as a young girl, she and her older sister and mother survived a car crash that took the lives of their father and beloved baby sister. And although relations with her remaining family are...

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
  • Author(s): Yorgos Pratanos
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 1950s

A WIDOW with the heartbreaking duty of escorting her husband’s body to his motherland, the last wish of a dying man. The HERETIC, who rose to prominence with his fierce and unyielding books, praised and beloved by an entire...

The Unwitting

The Unwitting
  • Author(s): Ellen Feldman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1963

At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling...

The Unwomanly Face of War

The Unwomanly Face of War
  • Author(s): Svetlana Alexievich, Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator)
  • Location(s): Russia, Belarus
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Looking back to WW2

Extraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War – from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have...

The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke

The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke
  • Author(s): Caroline Smailes
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

  Theodora Quirke has no reason to be merry. It’s bad enough that she has to work on Christmas Eve but now there’s a drunk bloke dressed as Santa and claiming to be St Nick hanging around outside her...

The Upper Crush

The Upper Crush
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Somerset, Corsham, Corsham Court, London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He wasn’t banking on someone else taking the reins… Lady Estelle Foxbrooke is done cleaning up the mess left by her wild parents. She’s got a plan: take the reins and save the family estate her way. But then...

The Used World

The Used World
  • Author(s): Haven Kimmel
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead. So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World...

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