- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): late 20th century
One winter’s night, a snowman comes to life and an unforgettable adventure begins. Raymond Briggs’ classic is a true piece of Christmas magic – narrated entirely through pictures, it captures the wonder and innocence of childhood and is recognised...
- Location(s): Zanzibar, Cape Town, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Ex Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early...
- Location(s): Tanzania, World
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 20th century
Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 1930s
A TOTALLY ABSORBING HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT SOCIALITES, SPIES, AND THE KING OF ENGLAND. London, 1936. Socialite and journalist Lady Pamela pens the popular ‘Agent of Influence’ column, writing wittily about fashion and high society. For her latest piece, she...
- Location(s): Europe, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s-60s
One ordinary school. Three extraordinary women … In the 1920s, three young girls enter a strict, cheerless convent school in a quiet London suburb. Six years later they leave, to change the world … Maureen was the movie star,...
The Society of Unknowable Objects
- Location(s): Hong Kong, London, The American South
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The world of unknowable objects – magical items that most people have no idea possess powers – has been quiet for decades . . . But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Sojourners is a coming of age novel (fiction) set in the 1980s – a journey through Europe with vivid imagery, poetry and references to great songs of that era throughout. From the book cover – “Filled with colorful...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1956
After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher’s wife named Delilah Evans moves with her family from Montgomery, Alabama, to Sinking Creek, Pennsylvania, for a fresh start. The last thing she could have imagined was becoming...
- Location(s): France, England, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
The Soldier’s Home’ is the stunning sequel to the bestselling debut, ‘The Single Soldier’, by renowned actor and writer George Costigan. The war is over and his home was re-built … but a home is just a set of...
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