- 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...
- Location(s): Pomona Island
- Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Detective Carrie Flynn’s sister Hattie was kidnapped when they were both little girls. After the police failed to find the culprit, Carrie swore she would become a detective and solve the case herself. But the face of the man...
- Location(s): Winslow AZ
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the murdered body of a young woman is found in a river wash in Black Canyon City, Arizona, Deputy Sheriff Sam Rush begins an investigation that leads deeper and deeper into the mystery of her death and the...
- Location(s): Africa, Algeria
- Genre(s): Historical, Humour
- Era(s): 1930s
Joann Sfar’s beloved, humorous, and wise talking cat is back for more beautifully illustrated adventures in Algiers and across Africa in the 1930s. While the rabbi is away, his cat tags along with Malka of the Lions (the rabbi’s...
- Location(s): China, France, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two (1944)
Get ready for the race of your life… This is what it feels like when I’m running. When I’m running fast, I feel free. 12-year-old Lili is determined to defeat her arch rival in front of the Queen during...
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