War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944
- Location(s): Tuscany, Val d'Orcia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
At the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the eventual Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman – born in England, married to an Italian –...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a remote Scottish island, fourteen-year-old Max’s life changes forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. Struggling to make sense of his new life and finding it hard to adapt in school, he begins to notice...
Warleggan: A Novel of 1792-1793 (Poldark Book 4)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family’s financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth’s old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved...
- Location(s): London, Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century (second half)
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): contemporary
Ben and his mother, a documentary film-maker, are embarking on a trip to his father’s homeland of Kenya. Ben is terrified he won’t be accepted by his estranged Maasai family, particularly as he has a crippling and shameful fear...
- Location(s): Upper Peninsula, Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Perry Firekeeper-Birch’s lazy summer plans have been thwarted. Her no-nonsense Aunt Daunis has made her take a job at the local museum. But when Perry learns about “Warrior Girl”, a Native American ancestor whose bones are stored in the...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 21st century
Princess Kasune Zulu grew up in an Africa trying to make sense of the mystery illness claiming its people. As a child, she could not know the disease that claimed the lives of her parents and baby sister would...
- Location(s): Barbados, Canada, London, Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Historical
When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black – an eleven year-old field slave – finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde is a...
Waste Not, Want Not in Applewell
- Location(s): Mid Wales
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
George can’t throw anything away. But he’s in danger of throwing away a chance at love George Nightingale is a hoarder with a house full of junk. For years he’s kept it a secret, rarely leaving his house and...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modn
ONLY ONE PERSON CAN SAVE YOU. AND HE WANTS YOU DEAD. The LAPD find a man dead at home. Nothing suggests foul-play but elements of the victim’s house show that something is deeply wrong. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, DI Rachel...
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