- Location(s): The Black Country
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure...
- Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): mid-1960s and on
Venice, California, 1965–Albert Zay, nineteen years old, has moved to Venice from the San Fernando Valley to pursue a penchant for drawing and watercolors, day job enlisted for reasons of necessity. In a mixture of circumstances that embrace a...
- Location(s): Canada, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Previously published as ‘The Beggar Maid‘, Alice Munro’s wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose’s life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world. Born into the back...
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Every summer, a once-sort-of-famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It’s a place where drum circles happen on...
Who is She? A Viv Fraser Mystery
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Doune, Stirling
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intelligent, sassy PI. Special Services can’t live with her but can they live without her? Who is She? No one knows that the past is a strange country more than Scottish sleuth Viv Fraser. In this, the fifth...
- Location(s): Central Florida
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In the fall of 1967, Faye Smith’s family moves to Florida to work in the orange groves, and she has to start a new school… again. She tries out for the track team, knowing her mother would never approve...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks. This is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
‘They’re dead. They’re all dead. It’s my fault. I killed them.’ Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast....
- Location(s): Santa Cruz
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
BEHIND THIS GLASS, EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL On the Santa Cruz waterfront, every house is as perfect as the people inside. Not so for Mitty and Bethel, the oddball pair in the dilapidated bungalow – they are the last...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a...
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