- Location(s): The Galápagos Islands (Galapagos)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020
Diana O’Toole’s life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she’s up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby’s and she’s about to fly to the Galápagos where she’s convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn,...
- Location(s): Nottingham
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dr Sian Love Mystery Book 2 DNA doesn’t lie. But what if the truth is dangerous? Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris....
Wish You Were Here (Graham Swift)
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1952
Classic-feeling storytelling with bags of charm. Fans of thrilling animal adventure and enchanting underground worlds will fall in love with Wishyouwas. It’s 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th century
Set in the 17th century, a breathtaking debut, and a potential prize-winner, about the power of women, witchcraft, fury, revenge and the ties that bind us. After witnessing the brutal murder of her mother by witch-hunters, Evey vows to...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Historical, Horror
- Era(s): 1970
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
There’s a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs in the family. A middle-grade graphic novel adventure filled with magical hjinks for fans of Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Making...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th / early 21st centuries
24 themed chapters. Each with 10 numbered paragraphs. Each paragraph with precisely 120 words. The sum of a life. In his beautiful and haunting new book, Charles Lambert explores the fragmentary nature of memory, how the piecing together of...
With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s
- Location(s): Australia, Scotland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s and 70s
Does looking back help you move forward? Not always. But, like Catherine’s first two memoirs, writing With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s, came at the right time for her after...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Europe, South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Present day
With a foreword by Lee Child. Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me,...
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