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The Tunnel

The Tunnel
  • Author(s): Ernesto Sabato
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by writers such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene. Infamous for...

The Tunnels Below

The Tunnels Below
  • Author(s): Nadine Wild-Palmer
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you find your way out of the dark? On her twelfth birthday, the last thing Cecilia expected was to find herself lost in a labyrinth of tunnels beneath London. Afraid, alone, but determined, she sets to work...

The Tuppenny Child

The Tuppenny Child
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

‘She’s not worth more than tuppence, that child!’ Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She is the talk of Ryhope when she arrives there, aged seventeen, alone, seeking work and a home in the pit village. But...

The Turner House

The Turner House
  • Author(s): Angela Flournoy
  • Location(s): Detroit
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

The Turners live on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house sees thirteen children get grown and gone—and some return; it sees the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit’s East Side, and the loss of a father....

The Turning of the Tide

The Turning of the Tide
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Bideford, Clovelly
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Devon, 1871 Young and vulnerable Selina Burman from Clovelly and her two young children are confined in the harsh environment of Bideford Workhouse. She can only observe them from a distance and despairs of a better future. Her prospects...

The Turning Over

The Turning Over
  • Author(s): William McCauley
  • Location(s): Mali, Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

For several years Robert Kelley lived a primative and happy life in a remote fishing village in the mangrove swamps of Sierra Leone. There he has managed a development project that built a cooperative fisheries station which improved the...

The Turning Point

The Turning Point
  • Author(s): Freya North
  • Location(s): Norfolk, British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present day

Life is for living and taking chances. Two single parents meet by chance and a spark is ignited but they live continents apart. They are made for each other but they have to take risks, take chances with family...

The Turtle of Oman

The Turtle of Oman
  • Author(s): Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Location(s): Oman
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Praised by the Horn Book as “both quiet and exhilarating,” this novel by the acclaimed poet and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye follows Aref Al-Amri as he says goodbye to everything and everyone he loves in his...

The Turtle Run

The Turtle Run
  • Author(s): Marie Evelyn
  • Location(s): Barbados
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She went in search of the past and found her own future. Becky has lost her job and her direction in life so is thrilled when she gets the chance to go to Barbados and research the fate of...

The Tuscan Child

The Tuscan Child
  • Author(s): Rhys Bowen
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1970s

In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that...

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