- 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...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a leafy suburban street in Dublin, beautiful, poised Stella Greene lives with her successful husband, Matt. The perfect couple in every way, Stella appears to have it all. Next door, at number 72 however, lives Rea Brady. Gruff,...
- Location(s): Florida Keys
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry’s husband vanishes from Wreckers’ Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of...
- Location(s): Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known. She had not left her village before, but...
- Location(s): Montevideo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might...
- Location(s): Geneva, Lake Geneva
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The stunning mountain views. The beautiful shore of Lake Geneva. The terrified woman held in the suite belonging to the hotel’s millionaire owner. Lo Blacklock’s all-expenses paid trip to a luxury Swiss chateau should have been the ideal return...
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