The Tiger Came to the Mountains
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Historical
- Era(s): 1917
Mexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in a short, emotional story about survival by the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. She is the adventurer of the...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The story of a boy who discovers that some things can’t stay locked up for ever. It’s six months since Rob’s mum died and he moved to Florida. His dad won’t talk about her at all. “Crying ain’t going...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Georgian Era
“A Little Princess with tigers! Orphan and outcast Sahira Clive is a brave and plucky heroine with a brightly burning heart. I was rooting for her all the way to the end of this thrilling and thought-provoking adventure.” Ally...
- Location(s): Normandy, Boston
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1937, 2009
Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a young American man, which transports herfrom the drudgery of her everyday life caring for her mother. But neither she nor William is prepared forthe warthat will threaten to...
- Location(s): Morocco, Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress’s art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out – until she falls passionately in love...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man’s biggest enemy is one he can’t control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their...
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
In The Time Machine by H. G. Wells – a hugely influential, groundbreaking work of science fiction – a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1870s, Franco-Prussian War, Paris Commune
Christine ‘Kiki’ Vellay, the daughter of vineyard workers, is forced to marry an older man in exchange for a piece of land. He abuses her. Seduced by a young naval cadet she plots to run away. When her husband...
- Location(s): Ankara
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Ankara, the capital city in the heart of Turkey at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, East and West, is a hotspot in the Cold War, torn between communism and conservatism, Western freedoms and traditional ways, with an army...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
How far would you go to change your life? When Eliza Woods sees an advertisement for someone’s whole life for sale – their house, car, all their belongings, even their clothes and cat – not to mention a trial-run...
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