- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1944, WW2
A timeless tale of courage, resistance and friendship, The Umbrella Mouse is a heart-stopping adventure drawing on the true stories of animals caught in the conflict of WWII, winner of the 2019 Sainsbury’s Book Prize for Fiction and selected...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Later 1800s
In the autumn of 1886, Elinora Gassbeek, matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage discovers five new babies in most extraordinary circumstances: One in a tin toolbox. One in a coal bucket. One in a picnic hamper. One in a...
The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, present-day
Approaching 80, frail and alone, a remarkable man makes the journey from his sheltered home in England to Berlin to meet his granddaughter. He has six days left to live and must relate his life story before he dies…...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes,...
The Underground Girls Of Kabul
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
An Afghan woman’s life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 19th century
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): late 20th / early 21st centuries
After Kate Mayfield was born, she was taken directly to a funeral home. Her father was an undertaker, and for thirteen years the family resided in a place nearly synonymous with death. A place where the living and the...
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Death is not the end. For Grace McGill, it’s only the beginning. When people die alone and undiscovered, it’s her job to clean up what’s left behind – whether it’s clutter, bodily remains or dark secrets. When an old...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book based on her pet theory: women don’t value their intuition about men, leading...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th century
Teodora has always longed to visit Venice. And at last she has her chance. But strange and sinister things are afoot in the beautiful floating city. Teo is quickly subsumed into a secret world in which salty-tongued mermaids run...
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