- Location(s): Westfjords
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nature, Travelogue
- Era(s): Earlier 21st Century
Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, turns a week-long stay into a transformative half-decade,...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1938
Russia in 1938 is a place of great terror. Joseph Stalin is in charge. His Secret Police are everywhere, searching for anyone who might be his enemy. People have no idea who they can trust. Seven-year-old Shura doesn’t know...
- Location(s): Flanders
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
January, 1914. They had suffered at the hands of the Raj; now they were being asked to die in its name… Reinforcing all that Prince Krishna Ram admires about Britain, in Warren Bateman it seems the Ravi Lancers have...
The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child
- Location(s): Kirkby Lonsdale, Belfast, The Midlands, United States (USA), Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Present
Lee Child is the enigmatic powerhouse behind the bestselling Jack Reacher novels. With millions of devoted fans across the globe, and over a hundred million copies of his books sold in more than forty languages, he is that rarity,...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
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- Location(s): Iowa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy’s funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken...
- Location(s): Oxford, Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
It is the 1970s and and Oxford’s male-dominated institutions are finally opening their doors to women… Sarah Addleshaw is a young and spirited academic, determined to prove her worth as she starts term as her college’s first and only...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Bestselling, beloved author of The Charm Bracelet spins a tale about a lost young woman and the family recipe box that changes her life. Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha “Sam” Mullins felt trapped on her family’s orchard and...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2016
Her heart is dying. Casey Schillinge is a vivacious young woman on the verge of making her mark on the world. While backpacking, she is struck down by a tropical disease and suffers cardiac failure. But at the eleventh...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1904
A genre-defying debut, this queer historical YA centers a wild and reckless trio who fly in the face of small-town tradition–full of compassion, love, and determination to live the lives of their choosing. It’s 1904 on an island just...
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