- Location(s): Kyiv
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The...
- Location(s): Lavenham
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1940s
This is the first book in a five-part post-war series set in the pretty village of Lavenham in Suffolk Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948. She was their only hope. Now they are hers. A gritty, heartbreaking and unforgettable story...
- Location(s): London, Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910/1919
‘These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.’ – Lancashire Evening Post London, 1910 When Amy is chosen to be a...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1
The Orphanage Girls come back together in The Orphanage Girls Reunited, the second installment of a moving wartime saga set in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen Abandoned by her...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1663
From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century Manhattan It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those...
- Location(s): Goa, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Eight-year-old Jess and her little brother were playing at the water’s edge when their parents vanished. For hours the children held hands and waited for them to return. But nobody ever came back. Years later, Jess has become a...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in Edinburgh, St Andrews, Dundee, Arbroath, Aberdeen, Inverness, Thurso, Ullapool, Kyle of Lochalsh, Fort William and Glasgow Connor is twenty-four: brilliant, broken, and out of control. He’s the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow...
- Location(s): California, Palm Desert
- Genre(s): Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters, deeply divided...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being...
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