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The Meadow

The Meadow
  • Author(s): James Galvin
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider’s web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few...

The Meal of Fortune

The Meal of Fortune
  • Author(s): Philip Brady
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A delightfully comic crime thriller bringing together Russian hit-men, M15 spies, the Eurovision song contest and a TV chef. A celebrity agent is hired by a shady Russian billionaire (who is under surveillance by the British Security service) to...

The Mean Hyena: A Folktale from Malawi

The Mean Hyena: A Folktale from Malawi
  • Author(s): Judy Sierra
  • Location(s): Malawi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

In this popular trickster tale from Malawi, Judy Sierra retells the story of how Kamba the tortoise gets his revenge when Fisi, the mean hyena, sticks him between two branches of a tree. Kamba’s solution? Of course, paint all...

The Measure of Time

The Measure of Time
  • Author(s): Gianrico Carofiglio
  • Location(s): Bari
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series and shortlisted for the 2020 STREGA prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award. It is a tense courtroom drama set in Southern Italy, but also a tale about passion and the passage of...

The Meeting Point

The Meeting Point
  • Author(s): Lucy Caldwell
  • Location(s): Bahrain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Meeting Point

The Meeting Point
  • Author(s): Olivia Lara
  • Location(s): Carmel, California
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if the Lift driver who finds your cheating boyfriend’s phone holds the directions to true love? ‘Who are you and why do you have my boyfriend’s phone?’ ‘He left it in my car. You must be the blonde...

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

The Memoirs of Cleopatra
  • Author(s): Margaret George
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Egyptian

The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words – by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Told in the first person – from the...

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

The Memoirs of Cleopatra
  • Author(s): Margaret George
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 69 BC - 30 BC

The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words – by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Told in the first person – from the...

The Memory Be Green: An Oral History of a Devon Village

The Memory Be Green: An Oral History of a Devon Village
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When she first moved to Littleham near Bideford, Liz Shakespeare decided to capture a vanishing way of life by recording the memories of elderly men and women who were born early in the twentieth century. Farmers, housewives and labourers...

The Memory Collectors

The Memory Collectors
  • Author(s): Kim Neville
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over...

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