- Location(s): England, France, Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1480s
The year is 1483 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John...
- Location(s): Iceland, The Highlands (Iceland)
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY. Kolbeinn has been called to his old home. The new owners uncovered some photos, and a muddied child’s shoe bearing the name ‘Salvor’. A name Kolbeinn doesn’t recognise. Soon after, he hears...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): early 21st century
The price of Memory is a collection of 63 poems. The poems in vivid imagery uncover what happens when the pleasurable thrill of being alive is lost in the pain that settles among the familiar and refuses to say...
The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The extraordinary story of one man’s gift to orphaned children in need of hope Can one person really make a difference in the world? Twesigye Jackson Kaguri defied many naysayers-and his own nagging doubts-and proved that, with a dream...
- Location(s): Silicon Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Would your character change … if you had all the money in the world? And all the time? Would you become a better person? Or worse? Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller. There’s...
- Location(s): Helsinki
- Genre(s): Crime
The opening chapters concern first, two terrified children who are compelled to intervene in a potentially life-threatening struggle between their feuding parents. Then we meet Sinikka, whose function in the plot is yet to become clear. Abruptly the book...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Priest’s Well – A Novella. Savvas has been assigned a position as the priest in a remote Greek village, following a scandal in the US. It’s what his mother would have wished for, but for a young ambitious...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being “in my prime,” as their teacher. Miss Brodie, determined that they shall receive an education in...
- Location(s): Gabon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1913
“There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man.”-Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer In July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Esin arrives in Istanbul to pursue her university education, only to find herself inexplicably drawn to a mysterious and charismatic stranger. Emir, returning to Istanbul after years away, is on a quest for an artifact that could alter the...
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