- Location(s): Geilo, Cambridge
- Genre(s): Destination Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary with history
THEN: Cambridge. Five best friends are about to graduate. They have their whole lives ahead of them, and a friendship they believe will last forever. Until one night changes everything. A devastating tragedy leaves the group fractured, and the...
The Skipping Verger and Other Tales
- Location(s): The Canary Islands (Las Islas Canarias)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 19th-20th centuries
The Skipping Verger and Other Tales is a collection of delightful short stories set on the island of Tenerife between the late 19th and early 21st centuries. In an engaging and unique style, John Reid Young’s stories range from...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1927 /2020
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary and WW2
There was a single trail of footprints, the first I’d seen all morning. They were fresh tracks, I saw, the edges of the impressions in the snow quite hard. Small feet. Like mine. Someone my age. Then they stopped....
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): WW1
Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2018. The Skylarks’ War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay. Clarry...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon – a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered – leads Detective Max...
- Location(s): Belarus, Poland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
The townsfolk of Motal, an isolated, godforsaken town in the Pale of Settlement, are shocked when Fanny Keismann – devoted wife, mother of five, and celebrated cheese-maker – leaves her home at two hours past midnight and vanishes into...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
The Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she finds a surrogate...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
One morning twelve-year-old Fred wakes up with an unaccountable sense of foreboding, which his friend Bul-Boo, one of the twins from next door, insists is just in his imagination. However, the feeling persists – and grows stronger when Fred’s...
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