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The Heavens May Fall

The Heavens May Fall
  • Author(s): Unity Dow
  • 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...

The Heeding

The Heeding
  • Author(s): Rob Cowen, Nick Hayes (illustrator)
  • 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...

The Heiress

The Heiress
  • Author(s): Rachel Hawkins
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘THERE’S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD‘ One of the most deliciously twisted families ever put to page’ Riley Sager When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also...

The Heirloom

The Heirloom
  • Author(s): Evie Gaughan
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Medieval and Contemporary

In the autumn of 1588, the Spanish Armada set out to invade England, before retreating and losing a large portion of her fleet in violent storms off the west coast of Ireland. Now, Amanda Morrison is haunted by dreams...

The Heirs of the Arctic

The Heirs of the Arctic
  • Author(s): Aslak Nore, Sean Kinsella (Translator)
  • Location(s): Norway, Svalbard
  • Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2015

#2 Falck Saga December 2015. Six months after the revelations in a long-lost testament testament shook the Falck family to its core. Hans Falck, who had most to gain from the contentious will, lingers in a hospital bed in...

The Helsingør Sewing Club

The Helsingør Sewing Club
  • Author(s): Ella Gyland
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Helsingør
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943 / 2018

Helsingør, Denmark, 1943 In the midst of the German occupation during World War Two, Inger Bredahl joins the underground resistance and risks her life to save members of Denmark’s Jewish community and help them escape to Sweden. Copenhagen, 2018...

The Helsinki Affair

The Helsinki Affair
  • Author(s): Anna Pitoniak
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Times Thriller of the Month One of The Washington Post’s Best Thrillers of 2023 ‘It’s the case of Amanda’s lifetime but solving it will require her to betray another spy—who just so happens to be her father in...

The Hen Party

The Hen Party
  • Author(s): Emily Benet
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Film Director, Kate Miller, is in serious trouble. The entire cast and crew of the reality TV show The Hen Party has gone missing while filming in Mallorca. To make matters worse, the network boss has just flown in...

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
  • Author(s): Sun-mi Hwang
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other...

The Hendersons

The Hendersons
  • Author(s): Daphne Glazer
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

The Hendersons opens in 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I and concludes in 1919. It follows the lives of the eponymous Henderson family: William, a Sheffield barber, his wife, Lydia, and his four children, Matthew, Joe,...

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