- Location(s): Ardnish, Canada, French Alps
- Era(s): WW2 and after
After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form...
- Location(s): Southampton
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Ellen Parr has always been sure she never wanted children. But when she finds a young girl asleep and unclaimed at the back of a bus fleeing the Blitz in Southampton, everything she once believed is overturned. As she...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now,...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 19th century
Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse. Bored and angry, Maggie and her younger sister Kate start to...
- Location(s): Doncaster
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London. But Doncaster’s also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses...
- Location(s): Massachusetts, Danvers
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In the coastal town of Danvers, MA, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals — even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers....
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters – as well as the...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fictional Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family–Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Bapuji family, returns to his childhood home after a long absence – only to witness the unexpected resignation of the ageing Devraj Bapuji from the vast corporation he founded, Company India. On...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post Russian Revolution
Ayn Rand’s first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia. First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings...
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