- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian Era
The second in a series of pacy, mystery-adventure stories, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. A new sensation grips London – a poisoner who strikes without a trace, leaving victims mad with terror … and then...
- Location(s): Wimbledon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Twenty years ago, Abigail Patterson put her promising tennis career on hold to have her baby son, Robbie. But after a wild card entry to Wimbledon, she suddenly finds herself swept...
- Location(s): Multiple locations
- Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and towering buildings? Or maybe you imagine something a little . . . wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Take an unforgettable tour around the world to meet the creatures that share our city spaces – from bears to bats, penguins to opossums – and learn about how they have adapted and thrived in this gorgeously illustrated gift...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge
- Location(s): Guyana
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guyana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Shunned by...
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and women’s rights. ‘Don’t let them tame you!’ ISADORA DUNCAN The story of modern dance is a story of...
Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
What if you could steal time out just for yourself each year, a brief reprieve from ordinary life and its responsibilities? Wild Horses of the Summer Sun is Tory Bilski’s witty, sometimes poignant, account of her annual ‘horse sabbaticals’...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
Floating across the sky in her hot air balloon, Cassi watches a little swift dive and swoop through the still air. In the rising sun the world seems to be holding its breath. Then a small breeze stirs the...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan’s most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang...
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