- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if nature fights back? Still in a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea. And, far in the distance, a misty outline. Skelsay. Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be. And now, home....
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
TRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE BARSLUND Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and...
- Location(s): Devon, Lyme Regis
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Regency
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, when Marianne Dashwood marries Colonel Brandon, she puts her heartbreak over dashing scoundrel John Willoughby in the past. Three years later, Willoughby’s return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and exquisite...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s to present day
In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger...
- Location(s): Catalonia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales’ acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. It describes the shell-shocked wasteland that was post-war Catalonia through the eyes of Cruells, a...