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Tom Horton-The Invisible Spy

Tom Horton-The Invisible Spy
  • Author(s): Ian Davies
  • Location(s): Sussex, Venice
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980s

Tom Horton is The Invisible Spy in this fantasy adventure set in the 1980s. Tom is a man with a secret. Not being restricted by the constraints of gravity is just one of the secrets he has to keep....

Tom Jones

Tom Jones
  • Author(s): Henry Fielding
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1749

Fielding’s comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery’. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible...

Tom Lake

Tom Lake
  • Author(s): Ann Patchett
  • Location(s): North Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In...

Tomás Nevinson

Tomás Nevinson
  • Author(s): Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Espionage
  • Era(s): 1990s

‘The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature’ Boston Globe Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop, retired...

Tomato, Fig & Pumpkin Jelly

Tomato, Fig & Pumpkin Jelly
  • Author(s): Lisa Rose Wright
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): present

“D’you think we should just get married then?” asked S, apropos of nothing, over the breakfast table one morning. For two people struggling to understand a foreign language in a remote part of Northwest Spain, Lisa and her partner,...

Tomb for an Eagle

Tomb for an Eagle
  • Author(s): Lexie Conyngham
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Viking

A man lies under the tawny earth, hands still clutching the knife that killed him. Thorfinn Sigurdarson, Earl of all Orkney and Caithness, has made a mistake, and he won’t let himself forget it. Now rumours have started in...

Tomb of Sand

Tomb of Sand
  • Author(s): Daisy Rockwell (Translator), Geetanjali Shree
  • Location(s): North India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Set in Northern India. An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention including striking up...

Tombland (The Shardlake series)

Tombland (The Shardlake series)
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): East Anglia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1500s

Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The extirpation...

Tomorrow

Tomorrow
  • Author(s): Nadine Kaadan
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Yazan no longer goes to the park to play, and he no longer sees his friend who lives next door. Everything around him is changing. His parents sit in front of the television with the news turned up LOUD...

Tomorrow Brings Sorrow

Tomorrow Brings Sorrow
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

You can t choose your family Megan and her husband Jack have finally found stability in their lives. But the threat of Megan s troubled son Billy is never far from their minds. Billy s release from the local...

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