- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Weekand co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2011 / 2020s
(A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller Book 2) Six lies killed Huw Jones. On New Year’s Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs. His body was later discovered on the nearby...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
The “Skeleton Coast”, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean in south-western Africa, is named after the bleached bones and shipwrecks that lie on its shores. This is Benedict Allen’s account of his thousand-mile trek with camels through...
- Location(s): French Alps
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT… Four friends go to the Alps on a boys’ skiing holiday. But their trip is cut short when one of them falls to his death. Zoe travels to France with Ivy to collect Tom’s body. While...
The Skipping Verger and Other Tales
- Location(s): The Canary Islands (Las Islas Canarias)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 19th-20th centuries
The Skipping Verger and Other Tales is a collection of delightful short stories set on the island of Tenerife between the late 19th and early 21st centuries. In an engaging and unique style, John Reid Young’s stories range from...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1927 /2020
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary and WW2
There was a single trail of footprints, the first I’d seen all morning. They were fresh tracks, I saw, the edges of the impressions in the snow quite hard. Small feet. Like mine. Someone my age. Then they stopped....
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): WW1
Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2018. The Skylarks’ War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay. Clarry...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon – a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered – leads Detective Max...
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