- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
The Tutor of History is an ambitious social saga, a compelling tale of idealism, love and alienation, set in contemporary Nepal caught between tradition and modernity. The events of the novel unfold against the backdrop of a campaign for...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A magic cloak. A hidden passage. A secret underground world beyond imagining. Night after night, the princesses mysteriously wear out their shoes. But how are they doing it? The baffled king promises a great reward to any man who...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Mythology
“On the first day of Christmas My true love gave to me A partridge in a pear tree.” For many centuries young and old alike have been singing about the maids a-milking, the lords a-leaping, and a partridge in...
The Twisted Sword (Poldark Book 11)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1815
Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons – and travel to Paris...
The Twisted Threads of Polly Freeman
- Location(s): Cheshire
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1838
It’s 1838. Polly is sent from a London workhouse to Quarry Bank Cotton Mill. The family who own Quarry Bank care for their apprentice children better than most mills do. But Polly is owned by the mill just as...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Part ghost story, part Nordic mystery – a creepy and chilling tale steeped in Norse myth, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Michelle Paver’s DARK MATTER. Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes,...
- Location(s): Paris, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...
- Location(s): Memphis
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960s Memphis, a young mother finds refuge in a boardinghouse where family encompasses more than just blood, and hidden truths can bury you or set you free. Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When she rents a room in the house she lived in as a child, Harmony hopes she’ll uncover the source of her nightmares about that lost time. As the London riots explode in the streets, the hot summers of...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Tyre tells the story of Ranji who barely manages to scrape a living gathering wood from the side of a busy road in Tamil Nadu, but accepts his lot uncomplainingly. His one and only concern is to feed...
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