- Location(s): Kampala
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2005
PHIONA MUTESI sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona has been out of school most of her life because her mother cannot afford it, so...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer’s daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She...
The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War II
Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Tudor
A fantastic Tudor adventure from Historical Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. ‘A compulsive read … I love Ally’s writing, she really has a way of making history come alive!’ CELIA REES Cat Sparrow is on the road....
- Location(s): London, Calais
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1500s
A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah...
The Queen’s Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
- Location(s): Castile y León
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1474
Isabella is barely a teenager when she becomes an unwitting pawn in a plot to dethrone her half brother, King Enrique. Suspected of treason and held captive, she treads a perilous path, torn between loyalties, until at age seventeen...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
- Era(s): Post war period
Country houses can be such spooky places and Rhiannon Ward who has written the Derbyshire crime novels shows us one with her new novel The Quickening. Her gothic novel is about Clewer Hall. It is the country house shutting...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’....
The Quiet at the End of the World
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Future
How far would you go to save those you love? Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kaspar Krone is a world-renowned circus clown, and a man in some deep trouble. Drowning in gambling debt and wanted for tax evasion, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve...
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