- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd delivers an all-new thriller, featuring a bold and brash female protagonist. WRONG JOB Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man...
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and...
- Location(s): Scotland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2002-2009
WWOOFing North and South describes the author’s time as a WWOOFer in New Zealand and Scotland. She travels widely encountering an eclectic mix of people and animals. She gets butted by a billy goat, chased by geese, mobbed by...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): End of 20th Century
In the summer of 1972, a group of friends is invited to Somerset to help photographer Seymour Stratton renovate a dilapidated cottage on Wyld Farm. Over the next year the group come to regard the farm as offering them...
- Location(s): Petersfield
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies...
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Award-winning author Elias Khoury’s latest novel is a searing look at truth and memory, love and trancendence, told through the contradictory confessions of a young Lebanese prisoner During the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s, a young man is...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1964
It’s 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed `Yankee Girl’ and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie – one of the school’s first black students...
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
In Meg Medina’s compelling novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school – and must discover resources she never knew she had. One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado...
Yasmeena’s Choice: A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
- Location(s): Kuwait
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Gulf War
This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena’s shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality...
Year 1 – Fur Babies in France: From Wage Slaves to Living the Dream
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
“Laugh out loud funny & a great travel guide.” * Have you ever thought of giving up work and heading off into the sunset with surf boards on your roof? If you answer ‘Yes’ – or you just like...
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