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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...

The Midlands Murders Detectives Roy and Roscoe boxset

The Midlands Murders Detectives Roy and Roscoe boxset
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): Warwickshire, Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present time

Three gripping murder mysteries from the heart of England in a Kindle boxset featuring detectives Sunita Roy and Gavin Roscoe. MURDER ON OXFORD LANE A budding chorister doesn’t return home from practice but his wife doesn’t appear concerned. DS...

The Midnight Guardians

The Midnight Guardians
  • Author(s): Ross Montgomery, David Dean (illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Sometimes at the darkest hour, hope shines the brightest… When Col’s childhood imaginary friends come to life, he discovers a world where myths and legends are real. Accompanied by his guardians – a six-foot tiger, a badger in a...

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and...

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