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Till the Cows Come Home

Till the Cows Come Home
  • Author(s): Lorna Sixsmith
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

One farm. Two worlds. Three generations. Fuelled by dreams of a rural idyll, Lorna Sixsmith and her husband swap the 9 to 5 for a return to her family’s ancestral farm at Garrendenny. They love the fields and lanes...

Tilly Turner Sky School

Tilly Turner Sky School
  • Author(s): K S Conaty
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Near Future

The Only Superhero Without A Power…Is The One Who Must Save Them All. At the spectacular floating Sky Academy for Superheroes (SASH), every student has an extraordinary ability – speed, invisibility, super strength. Everyone… except Tilly Turner. Born into...

Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold

Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold
  • Location(s): Timbuktu
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Timbuktu—the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one...

Time for Bed, Miyuki

Time for Bed, Miyuki
  • Author(s): Roxane Marie Galliez, Seng Soun Ratanavanh (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Like children everywhere, Miyuki’s imagination peaks at bedtime, when she remembers all the things she has to do before she can possibly go to bed: she needs to water the vegetables, gather snails, and prepare for the arrival of...

Time for Honesty

Time for Honesty
  • Author(s): Mette Barfelt
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Solvik – a seemingly cozy little town on the Norwegian coast. It’s an idyllic place with old, white wooden houses, almost a touch of paradise. However, under the surface lays intrigues, jealousy, and rivalry, threatening to destroy...

Time is a Killer

Time is a Killer
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi, Shaun Whiteside (translator)
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Noir

Summer, 1989. Corsica. Fifteen-year-old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family’s car plunges off a narrow road into a ravine. Twenty-seven years later she returns to the island with her husband and teenage daughter in an attempt to...

Time of White Horses

Time of White Horses
  • Author(s): Ibrahim Nasrallah
  • Location(s): Palestine, Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A rare insight into Jewish Egyptian history After ten years in Paris, Galal returns to Cairo, where he finds a society in transformation. Egypt is Galal’s home, but he feels he no longer belongs there. He is caught between...

Time On My Hands

Time On My Hands
  • Author(s): Giorgio Vasta
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a...

Time Passes

Time Passes
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Yorkshire, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941,1965

It is 1941, and the world is at war. Young Theresa Compton is left devastated after giving up her illegitimate child and joins the Special Operations Executive, an organisation of undercover agents working behind enemy lines. Her mission is...

Time Shelter

Time Shelter
  • Author(s): Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine’s assistant, the...

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