- 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...
- Location(s): Belarus, Poland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
The townsfolk of Motal, an isolated, godforsaken town in the Pale of Settlement, are shocked when Fanny Keismann – devoted wife, mother of five, and celebrated cheese-maker – leaves her home at two hours past midnight and vanishes into...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
The Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she finds a surrogate...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
One morning twelve-year-old Fred wakes up with an unaccountable sense of foreboding, which his friend Bul-Boo, one of the twins from next door, insists is just in his imagination. However, the feeling persists – and grows stronger when Fred’s...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1945
May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling optimistic. As she returns the last few evacuees to London from her Devonshire manor, she vows to protect dance-obsessed daughter Jasmine from further peril. But a chance meeting with...
- Location(s): West Bengal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930
From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India–a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval. YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL....
- Location(s): Greater Manchester
- Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has...
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