The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill
- Location(s): Valparaiso, Chile
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/1980s
In this inspiring sequel to the Pura Belpré Award-winning, “dazzling and insightful” (BCCB) I Lived on Butterfly Hill, thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to a very different Chile and makes it her mission to rebuild her community, and find...
- Location(s): Mantua
- Genre(s): Fiction, Biography, Historical
- Era(s): 15th/16thCentury
From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesancomes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time....
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
They wanted to escape capitalism; instead, they created the perfect business. Only Ethan Hicks knows what happened up on the mountain, for everyone else is dead. Hundreds of them, hundreds of westerners, their bodies yet to be recovered from...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
French teenager Margot is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent stage actress and an influential politician. The comings and goings of their unconventional family, in a small Parisian apartment, cast her whole life under a veil of secrecy and...
- Location(s): Marlow
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there’s no man in her life to tell...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Future, Fiction
- Era(s): Near Future
What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills – the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who...
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
- Location(s): Andhra Pradesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new business flourish as the indomitable Mrs...
- Location(s): Northampton
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Today
A blast of wind flicked hair from my face. Long toes wrapped around my waist, claws prickling through fur and clothing as I was snatched from the ground. The dragon lifted me high into the grey skies above Llundain....
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1560s
The woman in the portrait is perfect. So why does she feel so terrified, so alone? Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de’ Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San...
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