- Location(s): England, Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Funke’s mother dies in a tragic accident in Lagos, she’s sent to live with her maternal family in England. Traumatised by grief and against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, conformist Funke strives to fit in, determined...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1952
In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are the diaries...
- Location(s): The Dolomites
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Jeremiah Salinger blames himself. The crash was his fault. He was the only survivor. Now the depression and the nightmares are closing in. Only his daughter Clara can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1968
In 1968, Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in...
- Location(s): Uinta Mountains, Utah
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if your life depended on a stranger? On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her wedding....
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A young girl heals from grief and loss in the snowy Highlands of Scotland, with the help of her loyal, trusting rescue dog. Clova’s life changes forever when her mother, who was a search and rescue volunteer, dies tragically...
- Location(s): Lesotho, Tšoeneng
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area...
The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 21st Century
Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 18th Century
Set in Musselburgh (Fisherrow), Kelso and Edinburgh nspired by an infamous real-life case, The Mourning Necklace is the unforgettable original feminist historical novel from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden, Kate Foster. They said I would swing for...
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