- Location(s): Taipei
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Dystopian
Set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, a group of teens risk everything to save their city in this thrilling novel from critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon. Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use...
- Location(s): Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Money, love and family. Which matters most? When Diane Jenner’s husband is hurt in a helicopter crash, she discovers a secret that changes her life. And it’s all about money, the kind of money the Jenners have never had....
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Suspense, Romance
- Era(s): Current day
Wanted in Paradise, a hot romantic suspense novel filled with the… …drama of forbidden love …tension of a love triangle …glamour of wealthy men …type of action and adventure that holds your interest! Set in the beauty of the...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1941, WW2
The Newbery Award-winning author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife’s Apprentice tells a heartfelt and humorous story of WWII on the homefront. Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever....
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1 onwards
Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans’ grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): post 1987
Sharon McKay sets her new novel in Uganda, where Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has, since 1987, abducted up to 30,000 children from their villages and homes for use as soldiers and slaves. It is in these nightmarish...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy. Eddi McCandry...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1926
With war looming, she must find a safe place to call home… England, 1926 Eight-year-old Mirren has grown up in the shadow of the Great War. When a tragic accident leaves her orphaned, she is sent to live with...
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