- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice. Together...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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