- Location(s): Waimea, Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember ‘It was as if in surfing he was carving his name...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
A stunning and deeply moving literary debut of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events. When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman...
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modrne
Set over the course of twenty-four exhilarating hours, Undercard is the story of four childhood friends, now in their early thirties, unexpectedly reunited by a high-profile prizefight in a Las Vegas casino . . . and an even higher-profile...
- Location(s): South London, Branscombe, Sidmouth
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1972
It’s the summer of 1972, and 30-something divorcee Martyn returns to London after some years away. He joins the Olive Grove, a religious community, where he forms a relationship with Amelia. Over time Martyn becomes suspicious of the Olive...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
There’s a Cornish saying that nothing is left behind in an autumnal tide, the powerful tug between the sun and the equator makes the water surface stronger, and it pulls and builds until we are left with what is...
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1995
In spite of the perpetrators’ intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Adventure, Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet… In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland’s glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th century
The clouds of war have ravaged the continent, killing, starving, infecting every soul. The enemy is approaching, the promised bloodshed retribution for sins committed years ago. There is no escape, no choice, but to stand and fight against the...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified at the prospect of going to live with her country cousins. But as she helps with chores around the farm and makes new friends, the sickly, self-centered girl is transformed into confident, independent Betsy....
- Location(s): East Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On Yorkshire’s gradually-crumbling mud cliffs sits an Edwardian seaside house. In the bathroom, Jacob and Ella hide from their parents’ passionate arguments by playing the ‘Underwater Breathing’ game – until the day Jacob wakes to find his mother and...
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