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The Merit Birds

The Merit Birds
  • Author(s): Kelley Powell
  • 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...

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
  • Author(s): Imogen Hermes Gowar
  • 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....

The Mermaid and the Bear

The Mermaid and the Bear
  • Author(s): Ailish Sinclair
  • 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,...

The Mermaid from Jeju

The Mermaid from Jeju
  • Author(s): Sumi Hahn
  • 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...

The Mermaid of Black Conch

The Mermaid of Black Conch
  • Author(s): Monique Roffey
  • 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...

The Mermaid’s Sister

The Mermaid’s Sister
  • Author(s): Holly Webb
  • 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...

The Mess We’re In

The Mess We’re In
  • Author(s): Annie Macmanus
  • 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...

The Metal Heart

The Metal Heart
  • Author(s): Caroline Lea
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940, WW2

Wild, beautiful and spellbinding, this is the compelling wartime story of freedom and love on the windswept islands of Orkney ‘Powerful . . . Lea writes beautifully of island life and love, and the sacrifices that both demand’ THE...

The Metropolis Case

The Metropolis Case
  • Author(s): Matthew Gallaway
  • Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1860s

From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human heart’s yearning for connection. Martin is a forty-year-old lawyer who, despite his success, feels...

The Middle of Nowhere

The Middle of Nowhere
  • Author(s): Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When Mary Pinny dies from a snakebite, she leaves her young daughter, Comity, and husband Herbert in the Middle of Nowhere. As Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Repeater Station, Herbert Pinny takes great pride in his job: receiving morse messages...

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