- Location(s): Dartmouth, Dorset
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Sergeant (and amateur archaeologist) Wesley Peterson hoped that a transfer from the lively but frantic pace of London to the bucolic river port of Tradmouth would have a positive effect on both his personal and professional lives. But...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1618
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful. Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø...
- Location(s): Bradford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Bradford, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand...
- Location(s): Vientiane
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Eighteen-year-old Cam Scott is angry. He’s angry about his absent dad, he’s angry about being angry, and he’s angry that he has had to give up his Ottawa basketball team to follow his mom to her new job in...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
SHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears to be a mermaid....
- Location(s): Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Medieval
Isobell needs to escape. She has to. Her life depends on it. She has a plan and it’s a well thought-out, well observed plan, to flee her privileged life in London and the cruel man who would marry her,...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): post ww2
In the aftermath of World War II, Goh Junja is a girl just coming into her own. She is the latest successful deep sea diver in a family of strong haenyeo. Confident she is a woman now, Junja urges...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): 1976
*Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2020* March 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
An enchanting tale of magic, mermaids and adventure for readers aged 9 and up – from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Venice is faced with terrible danger . . . Can the friendship between a young girl and a mermaid...
- Location(s): Kilburn, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s onwards
I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house...
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