- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Hong Kong is teetering on the edge of anarchy. Violent street battles are raging between riot police and mobs demanding democracy. Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. He’s retired, but it was purely involuntary. It seems his...
- Location(s): Buckinghamshire
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR . . . Christmas is fast approaching at the new Hope Farm. Owner Molly Baker has been convinced to organise an open day to raise some much-needed funds ahead of the...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘Absolutely exquisite. This little book is a work of art. It is impossible to imagine the reader who will not love it.’ – Horatio Clare, author of The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal —- Snow. Every language...
- Location(s): Berlin, London, New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...
- Location(s): El Salvador
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in the tiny, war-stricken Latin American country of El Salvador, in the 1950s and 1960s, it is the story of the unlikely friendship of two women, one American and one Salvadorian, who form an unlikely friendship in spite,...
- Location(s): Devon, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present and looking back to 1960s
For readers of Lisa Jewell, Diane Chamberlain, and Jodi Picoult comes another gripping novel from internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis, about an eccentric old woman, the ghost-writer helping write her memoirs, and the destructive secrets binding them together. Ghost-writer...
- Location(s): Multiple locations
- Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and towering buildings? Or maybe you imagine something a little . . . wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world...
Queens: 3,000 Years of the Most Powerful Women in History
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
Celebrating strong, brave women across the centuries and around the world, Queens tells their stories of strength and resilience. Spanning 3,000 years from Cleopatra to the Viking queens, Queen Nanny of Jamaica to HRH Elizabeth II, discover new stories...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
It’s the Christmas holidays and Thea is looking forward to spending them with her father. She can tell him all about her plans to become a writer, and maybe he’ll buy her the typewriter she’s been dreaming of. But...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990
Aberystwyth University, 1986 – and another year of torrential rain. Bad hair days and a rugby-fanatic fiancé are part of her drab existence so who can blame Karen for falling into the arms of a handsome Parisian? Hastening across...
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