- Location(s): Oregon, South Korea
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal A hopeful, heartwarming story of a girl discovering her family’s past and present when she makes a deal with a magical tiger from her grandmother’s stories, the Korean version of “Once upon a...
- Location(s): Arctic, Norway
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A heart-pounding survival thriller set in the starkly beautiful far north of Norway. Gripping and adrenalin-fuelled, yet also written with a tenderness that warms even the most chilling of chases.’ LUCY CLARKE, author of The Castaways Erik Amdahl and...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 2025
What would you do if your elderly parents vanished without a trace? Would you assume they’d simply wandered off? Or would you start to suspect something far more sinister? When retired couple Violet and Lawrence Braithwaite disappear from their...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A daring novel that explores the taboos surrounding male-female relationships in Saudi Arabia’s deeply conservative society, Where Pigeons Don’t Fly scrutinises the public tyranny of the so-called ‘Committee for Virtue’, which monitors young unmarried couples in Riyadh. Focusing on...
Where Seagulls Dare and other tales from Herm Island
- Location(s): Guernsey, Herm
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Mostly the present, with one set in WW2
The tiny Channel Island of Herm measures one and a half miles long by half a mile wide. This book comprises twelve short stories drawing on the island’s history, myths and legends – each evocative of an island location....










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