- Location(s): Dover
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The sea has always been Martha’s escape—first from the sadness and strife of her childhood home, then from the drudgery of life as a wife and mother—but she can never quite escape the pull of love and family, despite...
- Location(s): Svalbard, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1937-1938 as well as 1947
THE LAST WHALER is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Children, Mythology
- Era(s): Modern
Book 1 (Last Wild Trilogy) From the winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment,...
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Adventure, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1960s - present day
Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these...
The Last Will and Testament of Senor Da Silva
- Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island’s first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senor da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never...
- Location(s): Shoreham
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy case such as murder to come...
- Location(s): The Midwest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they are As they test their own desires in...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
If you know London well, the setting will feel particularly familiar to you..(Emma Hardy) Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the...
- Location(s): Portland (Oregon)
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1970s
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being—for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him—but who, it soon becomes clear, has his...
- Location(s): Haarlem
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
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