- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1930s
This semi-autobiographical and unforgettable story, of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany before the start of the Second World War, now reissued with its original cover illustration in this very special edition. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink...
- Location(s): Swaziland (Eswatini)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ten-year-old Benedict is feeling happy. His family’s new home in Swaziland has the most beautiful garden in the whole entire world, teeming with insects, frogs and his favourite cinnamon-coloured birds. Here, crouched in the cool shade of the lucky-bean...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Anna, a much-loved teacher and mother of two, is left savagely beaten and in a coma, a police investigation is launched. News of the attack sends shock waves through her family and their small Swedish community. Anna seems...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 20th Century
Murder, blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber combine in one of Ngaio Marsh’s liveliest and most evocative novels. When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Mr Sebastian Mailer’s tour group seem...