- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jessica is a PhD candidate living in southernmost Tasmania, studying the activity of the glow worms that inhabit Winter Cave, an untouched haven she discovered herself. Aside from study and work, Jessica spends most of her time with her...
Wintering: A Season With Geese
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
The arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a vast natural phenomenon to capture the imagination. So Stephen Rutt found when he moved to Dumfries one...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): mid 20th century
Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and forget about everything. Evie, struggling...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1890-1910
First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Biography, Crime
- Era(s): 1950s-80s
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill–the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes — and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother’s...
- Location(s): The Galápagos Islands (Galapagos)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020
Diana O’Toole’s life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she’s up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby’s and she’s about to fly to the Galápagos where she’s convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn,...
- Location(s): Nottingham
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dr Sian Love Mystery Book 2 DNA doesn’t lie. But what if the truth is dangerous? Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris....
Wish You Were Here (Graham Swift)
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1952
Classic-feeling storytelling with bags of charm. Fans of thrilling animal adventure and enchanting underground worlds will fall in love with Wishyouwas. It’s 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank...
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