- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Someone is killing fairy godmothers in Cinderella… Can Miss Clara Vale crack the case before the clock strikes twelve? 1929, December: Snow is falling, and Miss Clara Vale is wrapped up against the cold as she braves the icy...
- Location(s): United Kingdom, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2015
This is the real life story of Anna McNuff, a British born adventurer who ran nearly two thousand miles across New Zealand in 2015. It is a story of endurance and what she learnt along the way. The book...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Named a best picture book of 2020 by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story by...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Present and WW2
Code Name Verity meets Jennifer Donnelly’s Revolution in this gripping debut novel. NOW: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months...
- Location(s): Uruguay, Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1990s
In the spring of 1998, Bluma Lennon, a Cambridge academic who has just acquired a copy of Emily Dickinson’s Poems from a second-hand bookshop in Soho, is knocked down and killed at a crossroads. Following Bluma’s death, a colleague...
- Location(s): Cork City, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to 1930s
1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother’s belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack’s mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second World War broke out, and she...
- Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
‘She’s just a paper mill girl.’ Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works, with her younger sister Bea, and spends her free time caring for their ailing parents. Their meagre income barely covers their needs, so...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Paper Moon is the thrilling ninth instalment in the warm and witty Inspector Montalbano series, by Italian author Andrea Camilleri. As he gets older, Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential questions. But he doesn’t have much time to wax...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam ‘West’ Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways....
- Location(s): West Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Every writer knows you can’t go home again. But that’s just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident. Single-again “Dr. Dee” has never been on the...
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