The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club
- Location(s): Arctic
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages . . . When Stella and three...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): late 20th century
Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he...
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The Polished Hoe is an epic symphony of Caribbean life. Layers of disturbing history slowly unfold through one woman’s intimate, murderous confession. In this meditation on love, loss and sacrifice Mary-Mathilda – mistress of a cruel plantation manager –...
- Location(s): Pollensa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The 3R team are back in action in the second of the series! Lily Green is scared stiff. Kidnapped after she leaves her work in Pollensa, Mallorca, she doesn’t know why this has happened and even when drugged and...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1959
The hero of John Updike’s first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhouse—a county home for the aged and infirm—overseen by...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure—a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick—comes a stunning speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship. “A masterful, tender exploration of love, loss, and the...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Published in the USA as The Last Russian Doll. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land … … Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. One summer night, all that came abruptly to...
- Location(s): Berlin, Dachau
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history A daughter’s search for the truth Germany, 1929. When Max, a Jewish architect, and Bettina, a beautiful and celebrated German avant-garde artist, meet at a party their attraction is instant. In...
- Location(s): Northern France
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union,...
- Location(s): London, Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It’s clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty, but...
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