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The Place We Met

The Place We Met
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Lake Como
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Christmas and New Year on Lake Como…. Lucy may have suffered her fair share of bad men, but now she has Pete. Finally, a man worth sharing her favourite place with, Lake Como. That’s if she can put mysterious...

The Plague

The Plague
  • Author(s): Albert Camus
  • Location(s): Algeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own...

The Plantation

The Plantation
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author – her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared...

The Playground Murders

The Playground Murders
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): West London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980 & 2018

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children’s lives were changed for ever. Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn’t tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest...

The Pledge

The Pledge
  • Author(s): Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lawyer Thea has just won the biggest case of her professional life when she receives a mysterious invitation – and finds herself on a jet, being whisked off to a private Caribbean island. Except this is no holiday. Thea’s...

The Plotters

The Plotters
  • Author(s): Un-su Kim
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The important thing is not who pulls the trigger but who’s behind the person who pulls the trigger – the plotters, the masterminds working in the shadows. Raised by Old Raccoon in The Library of Dogs, Reseng has always...

The Po

The Po
  • Author(s): Tobias Jones
  • Location(s): North Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 652 kilometres from one end of the country to the other. It rises by the French border in the Alps and meanders the width of the entire peninsula to...

The Poacher’s Son

The Poacher’s Son
  • Author(s): Paul Doiron
  • Location(s): The Maine Wilderness
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find a cryptic message on his answering machine from his father, Jack, who he hasn’t heard from in two years. The next morning Mike gets a call from the police:...

The Poet

The Poet
  • Author(s): Yi Mun-Yol
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

A young man’s determination to maintain his integrity in an unjust society forces him to endure a lonely and dangerous odyssey. When a governor to the King falls into rebel hands, he switches sides to save his skin. When...

The Poet X

The Poet X
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE POET X – THE WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL. A stunning New York Times bestseller with a powerful and unforgettable YA voice. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi’s The Children of Blood and Bone, Angie Thomas’s The...

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