- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Alone in the world, Sophie dreams of being someone special, but she could never have imagined this … On a school trip to Russia, Sophie and her two friends find themselves on the wrong train. They are rescued by...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
When Lucas survives the car crash that kills his parents, one memory stays with him—of the wolf that caused the crash. And when he learns that a wild creature is killing livestock in the mountains, he knows it’s the...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A gripping and atmospheric debut crime thriller set on an isolated Scottish island… A mysterious death On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of...
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sadie Keller is determined to find out how her brother died, even if no one else thinks it’s worth investigating. Untimely deaths are all too common in rural Blackwater, Kansas, where crime and overdoses are on the rise, and...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th century
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell… From the winner of the Costa Children’s Book Prize ‘A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination’ – Philip Pullman ‘Read everything she writes’ – Daily Mail Feodora and...
- Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Present time/End of WW2
When Orla leaves Dublin for Paris to trace the father she never met, her quest takes her to a forgotten village in the Cévennes where she stumbles on disturbing memories. A moving tale of love and loss, the Wolf’s...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Colonial America
In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin’s household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and...
- Location(s): New Mexico
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1880's
The Wolves of Currumpaw is a beautifully illustrated modern re-telling of Ernest Thompson Seton’s epic wilderness drama “Lobo, the King of Currumpaw,” originally published in 1898. Set in the dying days of the old west, Seton’s drama unfolds in...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene’s husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Høeg’s...
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