- 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...
- Location(s): Desolation Wilderness
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot....
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
Eilidh Lawson’s life is in crisis. Years of failed fertility treatments, a cheating husband and an oppressive family have pushed her to the limits. At the end of her tether, she runs away to the one place she thinks...
- Location(s): Northern California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): Modern
Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that’s why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn’t known about...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Morocco, 1968. The air is electric. Anything feels possible, and Mathilde is determined to celebrate it. Doesn’t she have the right to enjoy life, after dedicating her best years to the war and then to this farm? Looking out...
Please wait...
