- Location(s): Austria, Europe, Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Adventure, Children
- Era(s): Present
One small girl – one BIG adventure. When Max is sent to Istanbul to stay with her boring Great Aunt-Elodie, little does she expect to be plunged into a thrilling night-time adventure across Europe. And when the mysterious Heartbreak...
- Location(s): Ghana, Norway, Orkney Islands, Spain, Thailand
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
The Secret of the Purple Lake is a collection of five interlinked stories that take us from Ghana to Orkney, and from Spain to Norway and Thailand. As a minor character from one story assumes a major role in...
The Secret of the Sacred Scarab
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 21st century
In this exciting Middle Grade adventure set in Egypt, a 5000-year-old mystery comes to life. A scruffy peddler gives Adam and Justin Sinclair an old Egyptian scarab on their very first day in Egypt. Only when the evil Dr....
- Location(s): Gibellina, Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1963 / 2003
1968, Sicily. Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba, on roads overlooked by the eerie backdrop of...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
Emily looks like she has it all Living the dream There’s the lovingly restored Tuscan farmhouse, the three beautiful children, the successful husband, the newspaper column detailing her glamorous expat life. But when Emily’s husband dumps her by text...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Biography
Joe Tucker’s Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe’s life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men’s club...
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
England, 1895: In the bustling seaside town of Brighton, photography is all the rage. Ellen Harper assists her twin brother running one of the city’s seafront studios, where fashionable ladies and gentlemen pose in their finery to have their...
The Secret Runners of New York
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gossip Girl meets Mad Max in this breakneck thriller from an international bestselling author where the line between rich and poor is the line between life and death. ‘The windows on all the skyscrapers are smashed . . ....
- Location(s): County Sligo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008 Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 A Sunday Times...
The Secret Society of Salzburg
- Location(s): Salzburg, Germany, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...
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